Simon Schama Quotes
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America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.
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I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
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We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
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Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
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I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.
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The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
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The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
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I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.