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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.
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History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to…
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A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of…
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The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of…
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Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the…
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Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.
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Disrupt, and you will be saved.
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In antihistory, time is an illusion.
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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
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Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
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The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of…
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what…
— Peter Drucker
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During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights…
— Fritjof Capra
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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout…
— Frederick Lenz
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We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a…
— Grace Abbott
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been…
— William Julius Wilson
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Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
— Jill Lepore
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