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- Nov 07, 2020
Revolution Quotes
Change, and the forces trying to hold it back.
This page mixes creative and political senses of revolution - a filmmaker reflecting on risky projects, and the observation that art often moves ahead of political revolution itself. See American Revolution.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Averse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
- Documenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to Iran's ruling theocracy have amounted to diplomatic shivs in the backs of Iran's youthful democratic insurrectionists, mash notes written directly to Khomeinist supremo Ali Khamenei and the scuttling of programs documenting the regime's human rights outrages.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
ICT careers are becoming more complex as a result of the digital revolution, where smarter connections are being made between people, processes, data, and things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.
- Industrial Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the cable revolution overturned broadcast, the net is destined to become the dominant mode of video, both in terms of transit and programming.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see it with Brexit, you see it in Donald Trump's election, you see it with the fact that neither of the main parties ended up in the final round of the French presidential election, you see it with the Italian referendum being defeated, you see it in a lot of ways - the political revolution.
- Downton Abbey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans should be ashamed of how aflutter they get about Downton Abbey - it's unpatriotic. I seem to remember we fought a revolution so as not to put up with this nonsense, where notions of station are so unforgiving that upper and lower echelons are practically different species.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
- Hammerstein
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
- Parliament
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020