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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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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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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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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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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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
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I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.
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It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.
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I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.
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She had looked in the mirror a million times and only saw the brown of her skin and not the magic flowing beneath it.
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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.
