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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about… — Honore de Balzac
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an… — William Ralph Inge
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. — John Kenneth Galbraith
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… — Stephen Jay Gould
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good. — Gail Collins
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration… — Paul Davies
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. — Benjamin Disraeli
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Revolutions go not backward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — George Farquhar
All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's… — Lupe Fiasco
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. — Eric Hoffer
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. — Victor Hugo
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… — Victor Hugo
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But… — Daisaku Ikeda
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. — Eugene Ionesco
Revolutions are not made for export. — Nikita Khrushchev
It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by… — Courtney Love
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. — Karl Marx
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion… — John Stuart Mill
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. — Nathan Myhrvold
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of… — Howard Nemerov
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah

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