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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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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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.
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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
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If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.
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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.
