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

-- Fernand Braudel

#Moving Quotes #May Quotes #Three Quotes

“We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.”

Source : Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.38, Vintage
“The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.59, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.”
“How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.”
“For men's religion to God is between God and themselves. The king shall not answer for it. Neither may the king be judge between God and man. Let them be heretics, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it appertains not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure. This is made evident to our lord the king by the scriptures.”

Source : Thomas Helwys, Richard Groves (1998). “A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity (1611/1612)”, p.53, Mercer University Press
“There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.”
“Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.”
“In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.”

Source : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

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