Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I was a tomboy.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history of music. It's not just pop music of the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I'm listening to stuff from hundreds of years ago as well, because you can learn from everything.
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Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. … those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.
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Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
