#volution

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results. ↗

— Walter Lang

#beginning #benefits #billion #earth #emphasizing

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#long #men #our #parade #proper

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#furthermore #impossible #leads #revolution #revolutionary

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#cause #degree #more #proletariat #revolution

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#history #only #proletariat #revolution #school

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#did #expect #i #revolution #said

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

There are no shortcuts in evolution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#evolution #shortcuts

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom. ↗

— James Buchan

#attacks #believed #best #bin #difficult