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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 disavow, and what…
- Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
- 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…
- History is only written from what remains.
- In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen…
- In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.
- Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle