"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."

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Source : Danton's Death act 1, sc. 5 (1835) See Vergniaud 1

Georg Buchner

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“Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.”

Source : Ludovico Ariosto (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ludovico Ariosto - Complete Orlando Furioso (Illustrated)”, p.634, Delphi Classics
“In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.”
“You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Oxford University Press
“Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.”
“There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.”
“Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.”
“These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.”
“There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.”

Source : "Why doctors need to embrace their digital future now". Interview with Thomas Goetz, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.

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