Explosions Quote by Fernand Braudel

“There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.”

Fernand Braudel

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Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

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History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

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Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often…

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Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

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