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The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled. Jill Lepore
Life Together Think Case Bound Got Gotten Die Where Ever Right
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different. Jill Lepore
Life Day Game Old Kid One Day Kids Seemed Remembered Bought Mess Sure How Than Quite Different Board Playing
In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. Jill Lepore
News Nineteen William Cities Castle Got American Owned Newspapers Who Lived Four
In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News. Jill Lepore
News Got American Four Fox Fox News
If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high. Jill Lepore
You Vote Quality High About Something Know Policy Opinion Matches Lot Information Preferences Your Apply
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president. Jill Lepore
Nature Character Action President Presidential Scale Out Greater Than Person American Bigger American President Biography
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth. Jill Lepore
History Lost Saved Earth Eaten Written Found
My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away. Jill Lepore
Home Me Mother Stay Scary Only Liked Read Always Command Get Wanted Found Away Ever Things
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard. Jill Lepore
Cake Damning Piece Them Taxes Hard Defending
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future. Jill Lepore
Future Innovation Past Conservatism Other Directions Toward Tradition Tug Different Different Directions Novelty
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. Jill Lepore
Made Progressivism Possible
Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest. Jill Lepore
People World Also American Among
Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. Jill Lepore
Group Deficiencies Fathers Easily Out Parental Consumer Remedy Almost Almost Anything Mothers Very Anything Might Turned Buying
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born. Jill Lepore
Science Research Press Plots Born About Date Journalism Science Fiction Were American Modern Fiction Stories Epidemic
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. Jill Lepore
Market Market Economy Punished Moral Rise Feature Wrong Idea Economy Trade Debt Forgiven Should Necessary Consequent
Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism. Jill Lepore
Good History Ignorance Become Rich Too Our Broke Something Only Part Like Matched Go Optimism Very Get American Forgetting Means Fast Actually
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. Johan Huizinga
Life Impossible Hero Nothing Heroic Heroism Strive Bestowed Know Fallen Survivors Title Themselves Who
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. Johan Huizinga
Power Judgment Pictorial Advertising Enables His Modern Average Exploit Suggestion
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. Johan Huizinga
Abandonment Judgment Understanding Primacy Well Norms Ethical Means Standards Hence
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. Johan Huizinga
Faith Strange Dissolution Once Seemed Look Times Which Reason Conquered Now Save
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time. Johan Huizinga
Time You Long Long Time Live Only Dead Short Short Time
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible. Johan Huizinga
Character Together World Try Own Market Our Possible Put Maintain Partners However Up Either Against Social Much Europe European Dam
Culture means control over nature. Johan Huizinga
Nature Culture Control Over Means
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. Johan Huizinga
War Nature Man Crime Control Human Nature Every Our Hundred Lies Physical Shackled Triumphs Only Point Feet Himself Domination Human Psychiatry Against Mean Social Chains Services Every Man
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. Johan Huizinga
Culture Striving Feature Element Fundamental Second
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. Johan Huizinga
Beautiful Depression Age World Desperation Every About More Yearning Intense Confusing Deeper Present
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