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" Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard. "
Jill Lepore
Cake
Taxes
Piece
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" Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. "
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" 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. "
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" As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. "
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" Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements. "
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" Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror. "
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" Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. "
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" Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes. "
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" Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. "
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" 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. "
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" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "
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" In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world. "
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" 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. "
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" No nation has a single history, no people a single song. "
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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. "
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" In antihistory, time is an illusion. "
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" Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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God
Fall
" When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units. "
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Business
" 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. "
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" Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology. "
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" It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race. "
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" Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology. "
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" Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. "
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