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Revolutions

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“A revolution aims at bringing about fundamental changes in institutions by employing illegal tactics. What is legal and what a society will tolerate are distinct. When there is sympathy for ends, illegal means may become acceptable and the laws against them unenforceable.”

From the remarkable autobiography of the Nobel Prize winning social scientist and father of artificial intelligence, Herbert Simon.

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