In America, particularly after the Great Awakening in the mid-18th century, it was a potent force for progress, an ally against statism and hierarchy.

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That is the great awakening of the past generation in the emerging world: It is no longer possible for rulers to stifle human capital.

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"I don't see a third Great Awakening happening at the moment, " Thumma said.

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There are no guarantees, but America has everything to gain from being at the heart of this great awakening.

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It was the City's great awakening.

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Prior to filming The Awakening, Hall read Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicholson and "a lot of war poetry".

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America, one might fairly say, had two foundings: the first under the Enlightenment guidance of its rich intellectual founders, and a second with the popular, evangelical Second Great Awakening, which flamed a quarter century afterward.

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We are on the cusp of what sociologists might call a Great Awakening.

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It was a victory of Gilded Age capitalism (enforced perhaps by the railroads, which made indefinite isolation an unrealistic goal) over Great Awakening spiritualism.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi

John Allen, the top coalition commander, has publicly compared the Andar revolt which to a great degree pits local Pashtuns against the largely Pashtun Taliban to the so-called Anbar Awakening, a rebellion of Iraq's Sunni tribes against al Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgents that became a turning point in the Iraq war.

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