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This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
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