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Quote by Norman Mailer
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. – Norman Mailer

Other quotes by Norman Mailer

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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Conformity
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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Minorities
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Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. – Norman Mailer

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Hmmm
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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought – two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate

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History

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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History

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong

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History

I did not come to NASA to make history. – Sally Ride

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Random Quotes

My kids give me the balance to live right. – Celine Dion

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Family

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. – Charles Dickens

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Gentlemen

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. – George W. Bush

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power

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. – Horace

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Trust