Drew Gilpin Faust I’ve had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. – Drew Gilpin Faust Dead Quotes Dialogues Quotes Died Quotes Mother Quotes I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united. I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child’s obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
Jeanne Marie Laskas One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Jeremy Allaire There’s all these proofs that go on of identity, of records, and they’re quite non-digital. The blockchain innovation really allows us to take everything where there’s record keeping, everything where there’s trust around record keeping, and it allows us to make that digital, immutable, permanent, and global. – Jeremy Allaire
James Lankford One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there’s lots of duplication in government. But when you ask someone, ‘OK, name two programs that are duplicative,’ typically there’s a long pause. – James Lankford
Dorothea Lange The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. – Dorothea Lange
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