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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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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We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.
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I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
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If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.
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I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.
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Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.
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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.
