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• The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of…
• Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
• Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and…
• The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.
• History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
• Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
• Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions,…

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