The notion of 'history from ...

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.
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

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
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 Dave East
We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.
 Arthur Jones
I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.
 Kim Nam-joon
Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.
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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
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