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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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Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out. – Norman Mailer

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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – 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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History does not unfold: it piles up. – Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth

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We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play. РR̩gis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution?

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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

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Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. – Nelson Mandela

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