"When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes."

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John Boyd Orr

#Creating Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent.”
“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.”

Source : "Quotable Saints". Book by Ronda Chervin, p. 79, 2003.
“With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.”
“It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.”
“If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait has effect E, a natural hypothesis to consider is that T evolved in the lineage leading to those current organisms because T had effect E. This hypothesis is "natural," but it often isn't true!”
“That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
“Companies thrive on the basis of the stories they tell.”
“A lion never roars after a kill.”

Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.42, Penguin

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