"Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new……" — Wendell Phillips

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• Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles… — Abraham Lincoln
• The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments… — William Buckland
• It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the… — Alexander Hamilton
• Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't… — Joan Didion
• In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before… — Walter Benjamin
• Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music — Thom Yorke
• Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think,… — Thomas George Bonney
• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this… — Daniel O'Connell
• To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify… — Unknown Author
• Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has… — John Quincy Adams

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