History Quote by Nicholas G. Carr

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“I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.”

Nicholas G. Carr

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We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

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Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture…

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What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the…

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot…

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We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

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