"Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history."

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Source : Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world”, p.132, Univ of California Press

Fernand Braudel

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“I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.”
“I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.”
“Simplify, then add lightness.”
“It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.”

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“Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.”
“ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.”
“In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.”
“We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.”

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