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A student says the Divine Comedy's endurance across times, dimensions, and media is evidence that it contains truth.
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Persistence
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England's naval innovation was long-range cannon warfare: a risky, inaccurate, initially bad method that worked because the English persisted through failure.
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Jiang says the British ultimately beat the Dutch not by superior seamanship but by Roman-like persistence, population, and willingness to absorb losses.
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"truth uh truth because Divine Comedy if Divine Comedy contains the truth and reflects the truth over time across dimensions across different mediums it'll..."
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"At the same time, during her reign, Shakespeare will write his plays. Next class, we are doing Shakespeare. Okay? Because without Shakespeare, there would..."
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"Okay? What matters is persistence. What matters is resilience. And in this, in that respect, the English are far superior to the European adversaries...."
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"The Dutch are superior sea people, but the British are superior sea people, okay? The British are much more persistent and the British have..."
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"...American character. That through just pure hard work and tenacity and persistence, you can learn everything even though historically we all know that writers..."
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"...So one thing that we discussed in this class is the persistence of culture. So again, no one knows why this is the case,..."
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"So you understand the persistence of culture. So we're at school, and this school is known for being innovative. It's known for being innovative...."
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"This thought experiment, I hope, shows you the persistence of culture. It's the most important part of who you are. It drives everything else...."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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