"A great deal of what many Americans hold……" — Jill Lepore
"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 has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out."
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60 Quotes by Jill Lepore
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Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the…
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History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish,…
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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…
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Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried…
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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…
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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…
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No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
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