The fact that I spend a lot ...

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn\'t mean I\'m not concerned with the 21st.
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.
 Robert Darnton

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I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.
 African Spir
Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.
 Alexandra Robbins
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.
 Scott Speedman

Quotes from the same author

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
 Robert Darnton
The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.
 Robert Darnton
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.
 Robert Darnton
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.
 Robert Darnton