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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
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At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Jacques Danton
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Boston has been at the beginning of so many revolutions and this is another one for the sport.

Guy Morse
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Revolutions are always verbose.

Leon Trotsky
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We can be proud that this is being done peacefully, without revolutions and coups.

Boris Yeltsin
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Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.

Lee Harvey Oswald
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Georgia does not plan to export revolutions, and any allegations that it does are insulting.

Mikheil Saakashvili
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Color revolutions succeed when the authorities are not only authoritarian but also lack self-confidence ... Until President Lukashenko loses popularity in Belarus, I don't think his regime will have any serious problems.

Dimitri Simes
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We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquhar
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

John Mortimer
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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Pierre Boulez
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The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

H. L. Mencken
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Revolutions always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

Terry Pratchett
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She had to go around four revolutions. She fell on the ice, and then she hit the boards. You can imagine how painful it was.

Zhang Hao
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Georges Jacques Danton
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Nikita Khrushchev
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We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

Subcomandante Marcos
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She has to turn four revolutions in the air over such a long distance. She fell on the ice and hit the boards. You can imagine how painful (that) was.

Zhang Hao
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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Charles James Fox
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After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

Ernest Mandel
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Revolutions may precede revolutions, earthquakes may rend the earth ... but amidst the crashing worlds and the clash of matter, truth, eternal truth, will remain unchanged.

Elder Featherstone
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