"I always just wanted to be a writer,……" — Jill Lepore
"I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer."
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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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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
— Karen Armstrong
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
— Isaac Asimov
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
— Mary Astell
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
— David Attenborough
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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
— Margaret Atwood
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
— John James Audubon
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he…
— Saint Augustine
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
— Dan Aykroyd
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