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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 as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor it it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape--political, economic, social, even geographical--is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
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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.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
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abhors, capricious, deceptive, short-term, social event, social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences, virtually
«The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| About:
Journalism,
Vision
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configuration, configurations, hone, honed, honing, impact, journalistic, maximum, social event
«The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade»
Author: Hannah Arendy
| About:
Authority,
Civilization
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«There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.»
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