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“I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.”

“History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.”

Doe Past Moving Knowledge History Learning Aspect Leap Emphasis Novelty Selective

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.”

History Stage Aspect Management Passing Passings Legacy Rhetoric Torches Unbreakable Doctoring

Book:And Yet...: Essays

Source: And Yet...: Essays

“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.”

Humans Kind Numbers History Mankind Aspect All Kinds Human Life

Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies: Hegel and Marx

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies: Hegel and Marx

“Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.”

Way Doe Problem History Aspect Historian

Author:F. M. Powicke

“Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.”

Humans Past Courses History Aspect Make Sense Symbolic

Author:Eamon Duffy

“History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.”

Doe Past Causes History Possibility Evolution Aspect Range Realms

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.”

“History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.”

Men Science History Records Environment Aspect Environmental Migration

Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American