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Jill Lepore Quotes

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror Picture Quote #1

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units Picture Quote #1

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Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart Picture Quote #1

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren’t often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc Picture Quote #1

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays Picture Quote #1

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe Picture Quote #1

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more Picture Quote #1

Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine Picture Quote #1

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Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Doctor Who’ is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time Picture Quote #1

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them Picture Quote #1

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Fox News’s coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Secret government programs that pry into people’s private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular Picture Quote #1

Clarence Darrow, America’s best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history’s most skilled orators Picture Quote #1

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An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you’re grown, and die before your youngest has left home Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests Picture Quote #1

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis Picture Quote #1

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world Picture Quote #1

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die Picture Quote #1

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Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror (Jill Lepore Quotes) In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state. (Jill Lepore Quotes) 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 Quotes) Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong. (Jill Lepore Quotes) 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 Quotes) When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units. (Jill Lepore Quotes) Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart. (Jill Lepore Quotes) Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren’t often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc. (Jill Lepore Quotes) Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays (Jill Lepore Quotes) A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe (Jill Lepore Quotes) Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. (Jill Lepore Quotes) Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. (Jill Lepore Quotes) Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson (Jill Lepore Quotes) 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 Quotes) Doctor Who’ is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time. (Jill Lepore Quotes) Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. (Jill Lepore Quotes) The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table. (Jill Lepore Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Fox News’s coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices. (Jill Lepore Quotes) 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 Quotes) Secret government programs that pry into people’s private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular. (Jill Lepore Quotes) Clarence Darrow, America’s best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history’s most skilled orators. (Jill Lepore Quotes) An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you’re grown, and die before your youngest has left home. (Jill Lepore Quotes) 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 Quotes) Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests (Jill Lepore Quotes) Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis (Jill Lepore Quotes) In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world (Jill Lepore Quotes) Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die (Jill Lepore Quotes)

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