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Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

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Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

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Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

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Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

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Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

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Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

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In antihistory, time is an illusion.

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In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

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The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.

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Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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