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"One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to explore the ways we can use sleep to help regain control over our out-of-kilter lives."
"Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary."
"Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree."
"Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution."
"All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence."
"The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems."
"What a glorious morning this is!"
"We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak."
"Revolutions go not backward."
"The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more."
"As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept."
"Revolution begins in putting on bright colors."
"And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective."
"A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions."
"He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government."
"Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice."
"A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill"
"I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution."
"If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution."
"A little revolution is a good thing."
