34 Quotes About Agitation



  • Author Hilary Mantel
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    Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our seats only at bayonet point. The King can cause us to be killed; tell him we all await death; but he need not hope that we shall separate until we have made the constitution.”Audible only to his neighbor, he adds, “If they come, we bugger off, quick.

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  • Author Robin Evans
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    It is a conservation of momentum: what is diminished by time is augmented by the pencil. As the idea fades, the agitation around it has to increase to keep it alive; and as the scope of the architectural profession also reduces, the designer’s visible impact on the object increases, as if to recall lost powers.

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  • Author Charlie Cook
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    The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

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  • Author Eugene Debs
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    Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

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