“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
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“The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.”
"Revolution" in New York Worker (27 April 1907) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1907/revolution.htm
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