Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
— Norman Mailer · History
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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
— Norman Mailer · History
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“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”
“Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.”
“The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.”
“Boredom slays more of existence than war.”
“Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.”
“Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries has been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight and through educating, inspiring, and hiring students in STEM fields.”
“A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.”
“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.”
“When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.”
“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”