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Isaacson - Walter - American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane - Highlight(s)

American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

Walter Isaacson

Last accessed on Friday October 4, 2019

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see things differently.

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As Albert Einstein later noted, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

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Journalists and writers are particularly drawn, I think, to that mix of engagement and detachment.

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“self-evident” truths,

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analytic truths

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synthetic truths

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grayed into elder statesmen,

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ensuring that every schoolchild has a personal computer.

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biotechnology revolution

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capitalism, having defeated the twin foes of fascism and communism, is likely to face three others.

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tribalism,

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The second challenge will be from fundamentalism.

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radical environmentalism

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Among the few things certain about the

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next century are that it will be wired, networked, and global.

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social theology,

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