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Robert Darnton Quotes

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 10, 1939

Topics

Power Internet American Mouth Press

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Education School Start High School

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

Responsibility Me Law Talking Little

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

Marriage Relationship Woman Man Role

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Stokely Carmichael

Government Law Conscience Higher

When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even particularly want. What I craved was the purchase, not the thing itself. Of course, a sense of not being deprived may fill an emotional void without ruinous consequences.

Consequences Student Sometimes Want

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'

Robert Baden-Powell

Success Small Things Detail Small

I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by.

Science Religion Support Peaceful

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

Never Forget You Forget Never Endure

My philosophy is that I may not like all the questions that you ask, and you may not like all the answers that I give, but this is part of a transparent government.

Government Questions Philosophy You

You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacred gift to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory, but each day.

Path Light Day Yourself Step Shine

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Pierre Corneille

Love Self-Love Source Other Our

It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground.

Svetlana Alexievich

Someone Important Listen Always Up

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