When one meddles with the ...

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.
 Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

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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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Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.
 Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
 Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau