“Each gyre orbits at its own speed,” he continued. “And the length of an orbit is called a tone. Isn’t that beautiful? Like the music of the spheres. The longest orbital period is thirteen years, which establishes the fundamental tone. The
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“Then I remember it’s January, a month when only the potatoes are optimistic about warmer weather.”
― The Rural Life
― The Rural Life
“For the merchants, the entire world was a single market and all humans were potential customers. They tried to establish an economic order that would apply to all, everywhere. For the conquerors, the entire world was a single empire and all humans were potential subjects, and for the prophets, the entire world held a single truth and all humans were potential believers. They too tried to establish an order that would be applicable for everyone everywhere.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“During World War Two, BBC News was broadcast to Nazi-occupied Europe. Each news programme opened with a live broadcast of Big Ben tolling the hour – the magical sound of freedom. Ingenious German physicists found a way to determine the weather conditions in London based on tiny differences in the tone of the broadcast ding-dongs. This information offered invaluable help to the Luftwaffe. When the British Secret Service discovered this, they replaced the live broadcast with a set recording of the famous clock.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“All human cultures are at least in part the legacy of empires and imperial civilisations, and no academic or political surgery can cut out the imperial legacies without killing the patient.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“And here I say to parents, especially to wealthy parents, ’Don’t give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.’ No one ever came to grief—except honourable grief—through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.”
― My Early Life: A Roving Commission : The Early Military Adventures of Winston S. Churchill — Illustrated Edition with Preface, Biography & Reference Guide
― My Early Life: A Roving Commission : The Early Military Adventures of Winston S. Churchill — Illustrated Edition with Preface, Biography & Reference Guide
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