Nick Bilton Quotes
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
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Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.
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If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
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Freedom has no history.
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Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
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When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
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Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
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I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don't help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they're likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they're in grade school.
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In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
