Revolutions are frightening, ...

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
 Nicolas Gomez Davila

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Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.
 Lawrence Jackson
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
 Henri Bergson

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History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
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Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
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Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.
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