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In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America. James Henry Breasted
History Responsibility Sense Field Ancient East Has-Been More However Been Historians America Either Europe Displayed Near Recently
It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. James Mill
Good Bad Known How Till Precisely Any Cannot Thing
The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous. James P. Carse
Life Finite Joyous Infinite Serious Play
True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children. James P. Carse
Parents Way See True Particular Particular Way According Children Stages Pattern Scripted Preferred Grow
In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own. James P. Carse
Reality Own Our Voice Divine Hear Encounter Acquire
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. James Truslow Adams
Age Discipline Value Thought Through Save
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties. Jane Ridley
Life Work Today Battle Stage Down Later Recognised Emerged Adolescence Only Fact Adulthood Generational New Got After Happening Psychologists Transitional Century Twenties Early
Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before. Jane Ridley
Politics Political Before About No-One Written Stuff Dead Read Been Familiar Wants Pages Biography
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind. Jean Froissart
Home Law Corn Harvest Collect Kind Plough Carry Must Hay Perform Bound Also Masters Tasks Wood Grain Fields Custom Cut Mow Manner Means Gather
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. Jean Froissart
Work Time Past Entered Something Noble Material Forge Again
Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio. Jeanine Basinger
Cinema Bit Magic Like Ventriloquism Radio
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. Jill Lepore
Life Made Life Is A Group Citizens Adolescence Up Target Senior Senior Citizens Just Stages Interest Moving Plain Useful
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off. Jill Lepore
Work College Employees Startups Would College Students Students New Hire Were Years Off Left Graduates Dying Laid Little Might Worked Companies Tech Tech Companies Last
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror. Jill Lepore
Age Innovation Strategy Seized Terror Competitive Disruptive
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity. Jill Lepore
Loyalty Dignity Determination Mother Father Married Borne Steadiness He She Him Loved Fierce
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. Jill Lepore
War History World Progress First Betterment Idea Between First World First World War West Dominated Human The History Of Human History View Notion Enlightenment World View World War
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house. Jill Lepore
Library Mother Long Before Nine Franklin House Died Oil Jane Canvas Public Aged Granddaughter Public Library Miles Found Basement Dozen Portrait
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Jill Lepore
Prosperity Pay Society Wealthy More Civilized Civilized Society Because Modernity Taxes
I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote. Jill Lepore
Library Remember Loan Everything Having Had He Put Obsessed Town Pieces Wrote George His Years George Orwell Get Going Requests Radio Ever Orwell Compilation
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad. Jill Lepore
Good Generation Bad Find Only Another Were Debtors Times Forget After Lessen Ever Numbers
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. Jill Lepore
Life Old Young Marketing Crisis Life Crisis More Schemes Mainly Just Stages Really
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. Jill Lepore
God Time History Corruption Grace Fall Past Worse Ruled Favor Supernatural Lay Tend Divine Involve Loss Providence Hand Behind Decline Sparrow Used Theories Special Each Present
No nation has a single history, no people a single song. Jill Lepore
History People Song Single Nation
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid. Jill Lepore
Work Better Will Single Possibility Something More Individual Factory Lead Smaller Piece Likely Well Single Individual Doing Line Office Any Interesting Skill Requires Paid Less Assembly Assembly Line Assigned
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness. Jill Lepore
Me Face Sister Took Franklin One Thing No-One Likeness Always His Eighteenth Eighteenth Century While Frustrated Century Ever Thing
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name. Jill Lepore
Life You People Old Giving Young Stage Marketing Crisis Life Crisis Inventing More Schemes Mainly Name Lot Sell Junk Just Stages Really
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