"The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it."

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Source : Jill Lepore (2011). “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History”, p.162, Princeton University Press

Jill Lepore

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“Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!”
“Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.”
“Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)”
“Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.”
“Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.”
“In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.”
“There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.”

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