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"Reform is China's second revolution."
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"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."

"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."

"Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!"

"Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must."
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"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step."
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