"No nation has a single history, no people…" — Jill Lepore
"No nation has a single history, no people a single song."
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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 History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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