"Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back."

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Source : Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.36

Wendell Phillips

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“We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.”
“I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.”

Source : "Director J.J. Abrams feels lucky to land 'Force' job". Interview with Rick Bentley, www.fresnobee.com. December 16, 2015.
“The beauty of TV is that it does not have to be live. In this case, rather than spending an hour or two hours staring at a door and waiting for somebody to come out, we can just tell you after it has happened.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.”
“I believe a lot in the subject of the power our own bodies have as marginalized beings to be able to change the sense of things.”
“I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.”

Source : Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27
“When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.”

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