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Famous quotes containing the word kicking:

    “All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    “All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    “Religion
    Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
    And we won’t have it kicking over the traces again.”
    —Christopher Fry (b. 1907)