#evolutions

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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.


George William Russell


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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [On Water]


Guy de Maupassant


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No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.


Christopher Dawson


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I see only adaptations - not revolutions.


Gordon Getty


#i see #only #revolutions #see

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.


Stephen Jay Gould


#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?


Francis Bond Head


#revolutions #rose #think #water #you

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.


Victor Hugo


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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.


Victor Hugo


#been #called #handled #human #human race

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.


Madeleine Albright


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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.


Georges Jacques Danton


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