T. J. Jackson Lears quotes
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“All history is the history of unintended consequences.”
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“Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.”
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“We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.”
-- T. J. Jackson Lears
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“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”
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“The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.”
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“But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.”
Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.445
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“Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.”
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Source : Arthur Machen (2014). “Spirits of Battle: featuring The Bowmen”, p.5, Courier Corporation
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Source : Speech in Amsterdam on March 12, 1941. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 468, 1997.
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“You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
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“The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.”
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“What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.”
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