Mark Poster Quotes
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Ferdinand Marcos
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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
Ralph Merkle
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
W. Averell Harriman
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
Fidel Castro
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
Gary Lineker
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
Harold Wilson
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
Ferdinand Marcos
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
Ha-Joon Chang
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
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I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
Walter Hill
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Tariq Ali
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Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
Gary Shteyngart
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. Mencken
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
Fidel Castro
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells
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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C. Wright Mills
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We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.
Peter Kropotkin
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I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.
Agatha Christie
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
Patrick Carman
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I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.
Danny Fox
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Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.
Mark Poster