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• We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

  Calamity Jane

  Soldier, Six, Wounded

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

  Anthony Weiner

  Israel, Egypt, Doubt

  "Interview with Rep. Anthony Weiner". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 27, 2011.

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• The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Christian Inspirational, Literature, Patterns

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

  Shimon Peres

  Winning, Israel, People

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• Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

  Voltaire

  Country, Needs, Ancestry

  "Mérope". Play by Voltaire. Act I, Scene III, 1743.

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• Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Home, Two, Stories

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• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  H. L. Mencken

  Leader, Causes, Majority

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• As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Skulls, Revolution

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.32, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

  John Keble

  Life, Morning, Sleep

  John Keble, “Morning”

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• Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, President, Holes

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• Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Anger, Indifference

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• I'm a real rebel with a cause.

  Nina Simone

  Real, Rebel, Causes

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• Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Men, Rebel

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

  Lester Bangs

  Teenager, Thinking, Records

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  Gail Collins

  Nsa, Special, Middle East

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

  Bo Derek

  Funny, Fashion, Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

  Chinua Achebe

  Government, Problem, Ends

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• White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

  Huey Newton

  Book, School, White

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Parent, Rebel, Tweens

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• He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Enemy, Rebel, Tribes

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• Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Priorities, Earning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Done, Chance, Cardinals

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

  Dudley Nichols

  Break Up, Rebellion, Printing

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• For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Errors, Doe

  "History Of Florence And The Affairs Of Italy".

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• For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

  Kristin Cashore

  People, Safety, Groups

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.89, Penguin

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