Jill Lepore Quotes

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• Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
• History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what…
• A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What…
• The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
• History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story…
• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but…
• Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.
• Disrupt, and you will be saved.
• In antihistory, time is an illusion.
• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
• Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
• The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between…
• No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
• Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
• When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
• As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less…
• Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
• Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.
• The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no…
• When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.

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