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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.


Eugene Debs

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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
EUGENE DEBS Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation -...
ERNESTINE ROSE Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains
WENDELL PHILLIPS Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed ...
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed ...
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
ROBERT PEEL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thun...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thin postpoems.com.
LAUREN G To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
MICHAEL KORDA I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a ti...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a ti...
LORD BYRON Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Filipinos are tired of political bickering and confrontation, that is why despite the relentless agi...
GABRIEL CLAUDIO Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
THOMAS A. EDISON Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there...
EUGENE V DEBS Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
OSCAR WILDE Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
OSCAR WILDE The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Outer agitation reveals inner instability.
UNKNOWN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agi...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
DAVID ROCKEFELLER If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
DAVID ROCKERFELLER If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress
DAVID ROCKEFELLER It's rough and nasty out there. The ocean is like a washing machine on the agitation cycle.
SCOTT PETERSOHN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like ha...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN We celebrate that, considering the agitation from the population.
BRIGALIA BAM The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from ...
VICTOR HUGO The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
MAHATMA GANDHI Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
MOHANDAS GANDHI The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to c...
ALFRED ADLER He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
KATE DICAMILLO What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
DAVID HUME What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
HUME What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'
DAVID HUME You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly s...
THOMAS A. EDISON Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly s...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thorough...
THOMAS A. EDISON You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted wo...
GERMAINE GREER Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all rac...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and...
PETER KROPOTKIN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futi...
ANNE SULLIVAN What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
DAVID HUME There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they...
AVIJEET DAS There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization.
ERALDO BANOVAC [The work] resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase a...
BERNARD HOLLAND When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
SRI CHINMOY We are born of love; Love is our mother.
RUMI You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.
JOHN LEWIS These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a...
AVIJEET DAS The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS There could be more agitation and protests in the future as the situation demands.
BABURAM BHATTARAI For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is wh...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensat...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning...
ABHIJIT NASKAR You like to claim that you’re in charge of the world, but it’s as if the world hasn’t noticed ...
TRISH MERCER I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up ...
KAREN M. MCMANUS I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue...
WENDY MASS The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and ...
FLORENCE KELLEY Life is a dash.
Pause in the present.
Enjoy this moment.
J.R. RIM

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EUGENE IONESCO The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public ...
EUGENE JARECKI The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and u...
EUGENE KENNEDY Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room ...
EUGENE CERNAN (Howard) had been throwing me curve balls because I hung with him earlier in the game. He had to com...
EUGENE EVANS I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel...
EUGENE JARVIS We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breath...
EUGENE CERNAN How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a...
EUGENE FIDELL There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
EUGENE CHADBOURNE It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
EUGENE WIGNER It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical probl...
EUGENE WIGNER The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
EUGENE WIGNER The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
EUGENE CERNAN Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos...
EUGENE KENNEDY The rebound indicates the market is not overbought. But the basic market leadership is still in tact...
EUGENE PERONI I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
EUGENE ORMANDY There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ...
EUGENE LEVY When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to t...
EUGENE O'NEILL at least provides some judicial review.
EUGENE FIDELL Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
EUGENE O'NEILL