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"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
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"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"
"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town."
"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
"Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass."
"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
"No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand."
"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
"Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!."
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"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."
"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
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