"Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a……" — Jill Lepore
"Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology."
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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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A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in…
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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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More Disease Quotes
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious…
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The…
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
— Mario Batali
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I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there…
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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting…
— Martha Beck
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
— Wendell Berry
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the…
— Grace Abbott
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