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 | "... it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation
that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to
construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by
whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that
ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis
requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be
available that have been carefully developed and fully explored." | |
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Milton Friedman
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| "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and
companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order
to be open to influences, to change." | |
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Katharine Butler Hathaway
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| "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its
conservation." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "A wise man changes his mind, a fool never." | |
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Proverb
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| "All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is
taking place every second." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." | |
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Ellen Glasgow
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| "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for
what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life
before we can enter into another!" | |
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Anatole France
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| "All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable,
those who are movable; and those who move." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is
everything. What we think, we become." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "All things change, nothing is extinguished.... There is nothing in
the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things
are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide
by in constant movement." | |
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Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid
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| "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by
drawbacks and discomforts." | |
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Arnold Bennett
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| "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
remake the world ? that is the myth of the atomic age ? as in being able
to remake ourselves." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way
they are." | |
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Bertolt Brecht
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| "Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, But
believe not that man changes his nature." | |
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Mohammed
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| "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal." | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself /
herself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his or her
own life." | |
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Herbert Otto
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| "Change does not necessarily assure progress implacably requires
change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new
wants and the ability to satisfy them." | |
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Henry Steele Commager
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| "Change in all things is sweet." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place
and be happy there." | |
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Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
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| "Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine." | |
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Robert C. Gallagher
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| "Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to
better." | |
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Richard Hooker
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| "Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific,
"progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter
of controversy." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Change is such hard work." | |
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Billy Crystal
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| "Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the
phoenix." | |
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Christina Baldwin
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| "Change starts when someone sees the next step." | |
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William Drayton
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| "Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to
profit by it, but to cause it." | |
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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| "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without
notice." | |
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Will Durant
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| "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you"ll understand
what little chance you have in trying to change others." | |
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Jacob M. Braude
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| "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you?ll understand
what little chance you have of trying to change others." | |
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Jacob Braude
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| "Contact is all it takes to change your life, to lose your place in
time. Contact, asleep or awake, Coming around you may wake up to find
questions deep within your eyes, Things you never realized." | |
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Van Halen
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| "Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed." | |
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Dean Acheson
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| "Don"t fear change, embrace it." | |
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| "During our short sojourn here we are constantly changing. There is
no such a thing as remaining always the same in any particular element.
Our thoughts change. Our actions are not the same today as they were
yesterday. We are constantly gathering new ideas, either bettering our
lives, or making ourselves more unhappy. Collecting the beauties and
sweets of this life is like gathering favorite roses from among the
tangled briars. We pay dearly for the pleasure of having them. Yet we are
told that this is but a "preparatory school," and the lessons we learn
here are to make us more competent to enter into the higher departments of
heaven. Let us strive on." | |
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G. N. Breed Brookings
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| "During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of
adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned ? not
what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the
familiar has distinct survival value." | |
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Peter F. Drucker
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| "Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if
it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever
be done for the first time." | |
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Francis Macdonald Cornford
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| "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself." | |
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Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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| "Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator;
everything degenerates in the hands of man." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but
in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability." | |
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J. William Galbraith
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| "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us
can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all
those acts will be written the history of this generation." | |
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Robert Francis Kennedy
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| "For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject
to startling or unforeseen change." | |
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Quentin Crisp
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| "Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them." | |
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Suzanne Necker
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| "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time
is the greatest innovator." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human
institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." | |
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Harold Wilson
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| "He who rejects change is the architect of decay." | |
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James Harold Wilson
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| "How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as
usual. I wonder if I"ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the
same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a
little different. But if I"m not the same, the next question is, "Who in
the world am I?" Ah, that"s the great puzzle!" | |
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Lewis Carroll
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| "Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we
harden." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "I don"t think that a leader can control to any great extent his
destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces
of history are running in another direction." | |
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Richard Milhouse Nixon
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| "I soon found out you can"t change the world. The best you can do is
to learn to live with it." | |
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Henry Miller
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| "I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to
figure out I can"t change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey,
that ain"t easy either." | |
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Annie Elizabeth Delany
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| "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I"ve learned, the hard way, that some
poems don"t rhyme, and some stories don"t have a clear beginning, middle,
and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment
and making the best of it, without knowing what"s going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity." | |
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Gilda Radner
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| "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing
one can be sure of changing is oneself." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first
examine it and see whether it is something that could better be changed in
ourselves." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "If there is one word which characterizes our world in this exciting
last half of the twentieth century, the word is change. Change in
political life ? change in economic life ? change is social life ? change
in personal life. Change is the hallmark of our times. It?s not gradual,
comfortable change. It is sudden, rapid, often violent. It touches and
often disrupts whole cultures and hundreds of millions of people. Behind
it all lies an explosive growth in scientific knowledge and
accomplishment. Some 90 per cent of all the scientists who ever lived are
living today and the total accumulation of scientific knowledge is
doubling every ten years. But this is reality. If we remember that, then
we will never flinch at change. We will adjust to it, welcome it, meet it
as a friend and know it as God?s will." | |
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Eric Johnson
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| "If we don"t change direction soon, we"ll end up where we"re
going." | |
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Irwin Corey
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| "If we don"t change, we don"t grow. If we don"t grow, we aren"t
really living." | |
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Gail Sheehy
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| "If we don?t change direction, we will arrive at where we are
going." | |
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Richard L. Evans
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| "If you ain"t the lead dog, the scenery never changes." | |
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Edmund Wilson
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| "If you don"t like something change it; if you can"t change it,
change the way you think about it." | |
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Mary Engelbreit
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| "If you don"t like something, change it. If you can"t change it,
change your attitude. Don"t complain." | |
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Maya Angelou
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| "If you don"t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an
obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." | |
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Marian Wright Edelman
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| "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." | |
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Kurt Lewin
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| "If you"re in a bad situation, don"t worry it"ll change. If you"re in
a good situation, don"t worry it"ll change." | |
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John A. Simone Sr.
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| "In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see
change we have to force the envelope outwards." | |
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Gary Lee Phillips
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| "In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which
goes is lost." | |
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Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine
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| "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the
dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any
longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the
world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our
businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of
thinking." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." | |
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W. Edwards Denning
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| "It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent
him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and
appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words:
?And this, too, shall pass away.? How much it expresses! How chastening in
the hour of pride! ? how consoling in the depth of affliction! Many
versions of this story exist. Another one is: "The Sultan asked for a
Signet motto, that should hold good for Adversity or Prosperity. Solomon
gave him, "This also shall pass away.?" ? Edward Fitzgerald, Polonius: A
Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances, item 112, p. 80 (1901). The
words In neez bogzarad, which can be translated, "This also shall pass,"
appear in the Diven of the twelfth century Persian poet and philosopher,
Sana"I of Ghaznl, ed. Mazahir Musaffa, p. 92 (1957)." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "It"s never too late ? never too late to start over, never too late
to be happy." | |
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Jane Fonda
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| "It"s not Jerusalem, It"s not Baghdad. It"s not Bolivia. It"s
Oklahoma." | |
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V. Z. Lawton
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| "It"s the most unhappy people who most fear change." | |
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Mignon McLaughlin
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| "Just because everything is different doesn"t mean anything has
changed." | |
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Irene Peter
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| "L have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking
for it merely for its own sake." | |
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Robert Moses
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| "Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing
it." | |
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Elaine St. James
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| "Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity
is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock." | |
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Alvin Toffler
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| "Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where
there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs
when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things
for the better." | |
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Harry S. Truman
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| "Money does not change men, it only unmasks them." | |
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Mme. Riccoboni
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| "Never change when love has found its home." | |
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Propertius Sextus
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| "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what
unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or
a few years to change all the tenor of our lives." | |
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Kathleen Norris
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| "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of
the shore for a very long time." | |
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André Gide
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| "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new
idea." | |
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Walter Bagehot
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| "Only fools and dead men don"t change their minds. Fools won"t. Dead
men can"t." | |
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John H. Patterson
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| "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." | |
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Carol Burnett
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| "Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in
the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every
sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand
each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to
surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene
inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet
exemplifying infinite diversities." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "People change and forget to tell eachother." | |
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Lillian Hellman
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| "Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way
to perfect them." | |
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Owen Feltham
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| "Politicians are like baby diapers. They need to be changed
frequently ? and for the same reason!" | |
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Larry L. Taylor
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| "Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and
for the same reason." | |
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Unknown
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| "SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of
environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more
easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut
stones." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do." | |
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Karl Weick
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| "Since "tis Nature"s law to change, Constancy alone is
strange." | |
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John Wilmot
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| "Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when
they feel the heat." | |
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Caroline Schroeder
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| "Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the
anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made
it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let
me see something tomorrow which I never saw before." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the
creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his
conformity and define his deviancy." | |
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Freda Adler
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| "That"s the risk you take if you change: that people you"ve been
involved with won"t like the new you. But other people who do will come
along." | |
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Lisa Alther
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| "The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new
suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole
species disappear and are replaced." | |
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Randall Jarrell
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| "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to
grasp the world, but to change it." | |
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Colin Wilson
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| "The more things change, the more they are the same." | |
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Alphonse Karr
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| "The moving finger writes; and having writ Moves on: not all your
piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears
wash out a word of it." | |
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Edward Fitzgerald
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| "The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your
Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears
wash out a Word of it." | |
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Omar Khayyam
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| "The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills
himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me? I have lived my life, and that
which I have done May he within himself make pure! but thou, If thou
shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul...." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "The only difference between a rut and a grave is their depth." | |
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Gerald Burrill
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| "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to
learn ... and change." | |
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Carl Ransom Rogers
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| "The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing,
however, is to change it." | |
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Karl Marx
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| "The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with
business, but whether any business will survive at all in the face of
social change." | |
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Laurence J. McGinley
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| "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought
progress." | |
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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| "There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to
worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is
often a comfort to shift one"s position, and be bruised in a new
place." | |
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Washington Irving
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| "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to
find the ways in which you yourself have altered." | |
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Nelson Mandela
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| "There is nothing permanent except change." | |
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Heraclitus
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| "They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most
love change." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea. ?Caelum
non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt" | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "To be true, I must fully accept that at this moment, I can only be
what I am ... no more, no less; however, with the inevitable passing of
each moment of time, I will gradually, but surely change ... to become
more or less, better or worse, stronger or weaker. My choice is the
direction of change: it is mine alone. The only true competition is this
rivalry with my changing self. It is the very basis of the grand eternal
plan." | |
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C. Smith Sumner
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| "To change one"s life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly,
3. No exceptions." | |
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William James
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| "To change your language you must change your life." | |
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Derek Walcott
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| "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on
creating oneself endlessly." | |
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Henri Louis Bergson
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| "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "To live is to change, And to be perfect is to have changed
often." | |
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Cardinal John Henry Newman
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| "Unless you"re lead dog, the scenery never changes." | |
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Hannah Whitall Smith
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| "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second
chance." | |
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Harrison Ford
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| "We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place
with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change
and happy in it." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we
love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed
person." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be
frightened if change were stopped." | |
|
Lyman L. Bryson
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| "We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." | |
|
Max Depree
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| "We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it,
we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo
has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before
it." | |
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Carl T. Rowan
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| "We have only to change the point of view And the greatest action
looks mean." | |
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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| "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we
begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." | |
|
R. D. Laing
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| "Weep not that the world changes ? did it keep a stable, changeless
state, it were cause indeed to weep." | |
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William Cullen Bryant
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| "What single ability do we all have? The ability to change." | |
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George Leonard Andrews
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| "When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to
change." | |
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Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland
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| "When you"re through changing, you"re through." | |
|
Bruce Barton
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|
| "Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to
it long enough and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the
change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of
favor." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find
perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult
for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we
suffer." | |
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Shunryu Suzuki
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| "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The
sleeper must awaken." | |
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Frank Herbert
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