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«What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'»
«There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.»
«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by»
Author: Peter Kropotkin
| About:
Revolution
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agitation, annually, exacts, hundreds, incarceration, manifold, sacrifices, sentences, sustained
«Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.»
«The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Inferiority
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agitation, conquest, emotional, experienced, inferiority, The Urge, urge, violent
«Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Freedom,
Mankind
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agitation, cropped, crops, depreciate, depreciates, favor, plowed, plowing, plows, profess, professes, professing
«Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.»
Author: Germaine Greer
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admitted, agitation, conservatives, demolition, humanitarian, professions, reformist, undermining, vaguely
«The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.»
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