“I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.”

— Walter Benjamin

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German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892… 1892–1940

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“On the eve of the industrial revolution there were on every side signs of political change. But the French Revolution frightened statesmen, and political reform in England was delayed for nearly half a century.”

Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) British economic historian

Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 195

“Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.”

Georg Büchner Danton's Death

Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

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“The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.”

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Act III, sc. i.
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“The Myth is the Myth of the Blood, which, under the sign of the Swastika, released the World Revolution. It is the Awakening of the Soul of the Race, which, after a period of long slumber, victoriously put an End to Racial Chaos.”

Alfred Rosenberg book The Myth of the Twentieth Century

Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts ("The Myth of the Twentieth Century") - 1930 (in front of the actual text, not by Rosenberg himself)
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“I congratulate my fellow countrymen, gallant soldiers, my Pashtun and Baloch brothers and the workers of Asia, Africa, Europe and the US on the first birthday of the Saur Revolution. The Saur Revolution is not limited to the workers and soldiers of Afghanistan. It is the revolution of the workers and oppressed masses of [the] whole world. This revolution, which was carried out by armed soldiers under the leadership of the Khalq Party, is a great success and a victory for workers all over the world. The great October Revolution of 1917 shook the whole world. That revolution is a source of guidance and inspiration for our revolution, which once again has begun to shake the planet.”

Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917–1979) Prime Minister of Afghanistan

Speech in Kabul on first anniversary of Saur Revolution http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/27-Apr-2014/anniversary-of-a-revolution-obliterated-from-history.

“Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

“I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.”

Paul Desmond (1924–1977) American jazz musician

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“Here [in Slough], soon after my arrival, I began to lay the foundation upon which by degrees the whole structure was raised as it now stands, and the speculum being highly polished and put into the tube, I had the first view through it on February 19, 1787. …the first speculum, by a mismanagement of the person who cast it, came out thinner on the centre of the back than was intended, and on account of its weakness would not permit a good figure to be given to it. …A second mirror was cast January 26, 1788, but it cracked in cooling. February 16 we recast it, and it proved to be of a proper degree of strength. October 24 it was brought to a pretty good figure and polish, and I observed the planet Saturn with it. But not being satisfied, I continued to work upon it till August 27, 1789, when it was tried upon the fixed stars, and I found it to give a pretty sharp image. Large stars were a little affected with scattered light, owing to many remaining scratches on the mirror. August the 28th, 1789, having brought the telescope to the parallel of Saturn, I discovered a sixth satellite of that planet, and also saw the spots upon Saturn better than I had ever seen them before, so that I may date the finishing of the forty-foot telescope from that time.”

William Herschel (1738–1822) German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer

Source: Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880), Ch.4 "Life and Works".

“I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.”

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