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“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Different Feelings Action Order Black White Knowing Events Mass First Time Population Defense Different Ways Transformed Stubborn Segregation Risen

Author:Howard Zinn

“The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.”

Humans Kind Self Whole Suffering Secret Events Needed Balance Mass Tragedy Triumph Excitement Midst Serenity Tranquility Attempting Calamity Rushing Secret Life

Author:Margaret Bourke-White

“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.”

“It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.”

Perfect Rocks Fronts Events Mass Mark Cameras Photograph Insight Treasure Eras Rock N Roll Lenses Captured Camera Lenses Time Capsules

Author:Phil Collen

“I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.”

Ifs Giving Feels Doe Faces Humanity Order Risk Events Offers Mass Tasks Confusion Helpless Optimist Small Things Pessimist Uncontrollable

Author:Bernard Malamud

“The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.”

Has Beens Bigs Lying Fall Nations Chance Greater Written Events Mass Victim Broads Epoch Spoken Word

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.”

Facts Moving Lying Purpose Certain Individual Vision Events Fields Mass Training Tasks Importance Propaganda Etc

Book:Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

“There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.”

Important Remember Born Forget Gone Wonderful Events Planets Mass Forget Everything Important Events

Author:Richard Bach

“We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.”

Has Beens Happens Turns Events Mass Climate Climate Change Massive Extinction Precedent Asteroids Mass Extinction

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.”

“Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.”

Thinking Sometimes Facts Reality Seems Certain Reading Situation Events Materials Mass Despite Statistics Capture

Author:Nicholson Baker

“The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.”

People Kind Culture Next Influence Rocks Events Planets Huge Majors Mass Exciting Crowds Decades Spots Theatrical Mass Culture

Author:Jim Morrison

“The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent”

People Events Weapons Mass Destruction September Blades September 11 Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:Phillip Adams

“Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.”

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after”

Happens Effects Events Mass Mass Effect

Author:Casey Hudson

“The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.”

Energy Events Objects Elements Mass Patterns Elements Of Life

Author:Fritjof Capra

“God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.”

Men Feels Age Together Spiritual Realizing Church Events Mass Ice Flocks Icy Huts Ice Age Draught Vacancy

Author:Arthur Koestler

“I don't get debate agains guns at all. Because we have it after every mass shooting. And now a terror attack. And the proposals that are talked about almost always have nothing to do with this specific event.”

Events Mass Gun Terror Debate Shooting Proposal Mass Shootings Terror Attacks

Author:Chuck Todd

“If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.”

“There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.”

People Feels Term Events Higher Anxiety Mass Evidence Trauma Unpredictable

Author:Michael Helm

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