"[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together."
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"There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after."
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"Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small."
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"Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature."
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"Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road."
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"I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in."
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"From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues."
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"Play is free movement within a more rigid structure."
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"John Wick does different techniques. Everything is available to him. There isn't one way of working a weapon. I like the reload with the flick going outside. That movement of getting rid of the magazine is to go sideways with it."
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"The media is to blame for everything, for all the misconceptions about the movement, but in a sense it didn't really matter if they said something good or bad, because Krishna consciousness always seemed to transcend that barrier anyway. The fact that the media was letting people know about Krishna was good in itself."
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"History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements."
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"The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course."
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"Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part."
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"It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed."
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"I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf."
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"The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power."
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"The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back."
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"Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'."
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"In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement."
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"The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines."
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