The future is constrained by the weight of accumulated histo... - Fernand Braudel

"The future is constrained by the weight of accumulated historical structures"

Fernand Braudel

Historian French 1902–1985

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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

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