"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

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“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions."

— Arthur Desmond

Literature1859–1929

#change

"If Congress fails to back up the President in his monetary program, I predict a revolution in this country which will make the French Revolution look silly!"

— Charles Coughlin

Politics1891–1979

#change

"They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress."

— Giacomo Balla

Art1871–1958

#change

"A good way of finding out who won a war, who lost a war, and what the war was about, is to ask who's cheering and who's depressed after it's over - this can give you interesting answers. So, for examp…"

— Noam Chomsky

Philosophy1928

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