- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
- Nov 07, 2020
In antihistory, time is an illusion.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
- Big Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Periods
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
- Cords
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- Nov 07, 2020
Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020