Fernand Braudel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.
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Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze — a poor man would I be if I could not.
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Our citizens put up chilies and onions to prevent the rain from falling.
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It makes it easier to adapt a book that is popular with kids because of how excited they are about the project; you don't get the criticisms you would get with other projects.
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As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
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The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
