"The idea of progress - the notion that……" — Jill Lepore
"The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War."
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60 Quotes by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore has 60 quotes on this site.
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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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No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
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More Betterment Quotes
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All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people…
— Leslie Groves
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to…
— Francis Bacon
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Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite…
— Joseph Brodsky
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When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference…
— Unknown Author
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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such…
— Gerry Spence
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My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance…
— Albert Einstein
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The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me…
— Morgan Freeman
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I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.
— Jayne Mansfield
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Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
— Karim Rashid
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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be…
— L. Frank Baum
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Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to…
— Holly Black
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