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For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second civil war had threatened to split the nation into new feuding armies, and the inequities of industrial life had brutalized too many lives. Three men who were caught up in those traumatic times, shaped by them, found with their talents, energy, and ideals a way out of it, both for themselves and for the nation. Darrow, Billy, D.W. were all flawed - egotists, temperamental, and too often morally complacent. But as their careers and lives intersected in Los Angeles at the tail end of the first decade of the twentieth century, each in his own way helped to move America into the modern world. They were individuals willing to fight for their beliefs; and the legacy of their battles, their cultural and political brawls, remains part of our national consciousness.


Howard Blum


#individualism #politics #men

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.


Sharon Salzberg


#education #history #change

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it


Bob Ross


#art-history #fun #humor #art

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.


Niall Ferguson


#financial-history #history #money #money

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.


Roger Ebert


#bookstores #history #literature #philosophy #reading

DNA has memory!


Isaiah Washington


#dna #history #science #change

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.


George R.R. Martin


#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #history #nature

Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!


Daniel Webster


#nature

History is a record of human nature in action.


James Carlos Blake


#human-nature #nature

Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.


Steven Johnson


#ideas #innovation #internet #nature






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