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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. Christopher Lasch
Family Conflict People Feminism Believe Between Left Ask
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. Christopher Lasch
Life Family Diversity Types Collapse About Emergence Instead New Talk Talks Left Family Life Growing
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. Christopher Lasch
Wisdom Progress Sense Community Obstacle Come Traditional Left Common Regard Common Sense Enlightenment
The left has lost the common touch. Christopher Lasch
Lost Touch Left Common
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. Christopher Lasch
Sense Longer Days Left Did Common Common Sense Paine Stands Tom
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. Christopher Lasch
News Soon Demand New Toy Makes Becomes New One Familiar Child Same Jaded Tire Place Appeals Appetite
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. Christopher Lasch
Will Master Left Sustained Activism Techniques
A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better. Cleveland Amory
Good Family Better Seems Used Good Family
So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead. Cyril Falls
Battle Will Long Air Remain Arm Armies Go Large
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. Cyril Falls
Leadership Acceptance Ensure Particularly Ready Tradition Contrary Unfamiliar Which Necessary
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. Cyril Falls
Leadership Exercise Very Capacity Fosters
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.' Daniel J. Boorstin
Travel Experience People Active He Tourist Adventure Him Passive Expects Goes Happen Interesting Interesting Things Search Traveler Things
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge Diffusion Increases On The Contrary Never Simply Another Up Contrary Commodity Used Grows
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. Daniel J. Boorstin
Word Power Other Advertising Force Dwarf Literature Century Image
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. Daniel J. Boorstin
Book Sold Best-Seller Somehow Well Because Selling Which
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. Daniel J. Boorstin
Good Fool Genius Bad Write Takes Learned Real His Off Hands Any Keep Ad
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are. David Christian
You All Religions Religions Indigenous Provide Traditions Where Stories Large Origin Map
I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction. And the same weapons are still here, and they're still armed. If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us. David Christian
Waiting Destruction Remember Few Living Others Crisis Weapons Entire Vividly Seemed Through Missile Days Armed Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis Verge Still Up Very Child Same Us Avoid England Trap Growing Growing Up Here
Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff. David Christian
More Powerful Stuff Where Gravity
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. David Christian
Nature History Learning Collective Face Threshold Power Picture Big Believe Mark Our Dangers Complexity Only Part Development Also Course Human Human Beings Us Planet Show Beings Fragility
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it. David Christian
History World Big Sense Our Everything Way Our World Studies Within Making Offering Role The History Of
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers. David Christian
Life Great Power First Build Everyone Our Earth Dangers Gives Potentially Remarkable Devastating Clear Almost Also Powers Principle Because Understand How Years Which Us Really Creates Use Billion Species Four Societies Flourishes Humans
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past. David Christian
Job Building Become Past Research Neglect Detailed Absorb Historians Unfortunately Maps
One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call. David Garrow
Great Challenges People Three Other Interviewing Some Something Call Matches Were Historian Version Up Conference Modern Being Who Multiple Even Event Four
Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history. David Garrow
Life History You President Once States Run Part Major Major Part American American History Succeed Your Choose United United States Biography Earlier
The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken progressive voice, that's not the man who we ended up having as president. David Garrow
Time Man Situation President Progressive Having Voice Outspoken Most His Up Very Ended Legislative Barack Successful Who Illinois
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