#evolutions

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ↗

— Jung Chang

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ↗

— Karl Marx

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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 the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools. ↗

— Hu Shih

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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. ↗

— James Hogg

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. ↗

— Aristotle

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