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"In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive."
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"The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution."

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

"The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow."

"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."

"The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness."

"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken."

"The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta... in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. But Peeta would be more valuable alive, and tragic, because he will be able to turn his pain into words that will transform people."

"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets."
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"What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us."

"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power."

"God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits."

"In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive."
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