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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most

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

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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. – Norman Mailer

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The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. – David Attenborough

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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. – Queen Elizabeth II

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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin P. Adams

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Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. – James K. Polk

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