"Modern political science started in the late nineteenth……" — Jill Lepore
"Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history."
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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 Branch Quotes
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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy.…
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you…
— Rosalynn Carter
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
— Yasser Arafat
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence…
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
— Martin Luther
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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
— Trey Gowdy
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…
— James Madison
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