"The idea that debt is necessary for trade,……" — Jill Lepore
"The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy."
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Jill Lepore
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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 Consequent Quotes
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon,…
— John Stuart Mill
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced…
— Whittaker Chambers
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Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill…
— Tim Field
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A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. .…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than…
— Antony Flew
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Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance…
— Patrick Henry
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When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of…
— Sol LeWitt
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through…
— Vannevar Bush
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To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions…
— Thomas Hobbes
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