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“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

“Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.”

People Way Has Beens Made Past Wish Revolution Crisis Democratic Painful Leap Farming Industrial Revolution Recoil

Book:The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”

Knows Men Way Want Looks Ideas Country Running Past House Know How Generations Painting Revolution Kings Garden Army Factories Regimes Estates Pointing Mistress Souvenirs Country Houses

Author:Peter Weiss

“The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”

Trying Past Black Break Revolution Deny Accepted Indian Heritage Mexico Mexican Over The Past Mexican Revolution

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.”

Age Past Party Half Ignorance Revolution Aim Educated Chains Ties Enlightened Our Society Saddam Hussein Liberated Despotism Emancipation One Half

Book:Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)

“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.”

World Years Done Enough Past Revolution Thirds Innovation Invention Toilets Save A Life Sanitation

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.”

World Should Kind War Moments Use Past Opportunity Interest Clear Fields Revolution Revolutionary Consideration Proposal Obtaining Landmarks

Author:William Beveridge

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

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Author:Nathan Hale