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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘change’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.” -Ivor Novello
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“Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.” -Robert Conklin
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“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.” -Tom Clancy
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“A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.” -Henry A. Wallace
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“Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.” -Gertrude Stein
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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” -Henri Bergson
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“One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don’t think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.” -Julius Erving
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“We’re a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.” -Rick Warren
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“If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.” -Maynard James Keenan
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“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” -Audre Lorde
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“I wanna change the game in way where I’m not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I’ve been given.” -Anthony Hamilton
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“I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.” -Temple Grandin
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“Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.” -Tony Campolo
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“Hope and change? We’re not doing that anymore. They’re doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.” -Paul Ryan
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“I don’t know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.” -William Shatner
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“They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.” -R. Kelly
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“The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.” -William Cowper
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“I don’t like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can’t really ask for more than.” -Mark Knopfler
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“We’re all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We’re also allowed to change or modify our opinions.” -Jerry Saltz
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“Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we’ll begin to change things.” -Arthur Scargill
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“I wouldn’t change anything. I’ve made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I’ve learned.” -Enrique Iglesias
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“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.” -Michelle Obama
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“Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.” -Frank B. Kellogg
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“I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.” -Erica Jong
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“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that’s a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.” -Rob Reiner
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“I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.” -Emma Watson
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“I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.” -Roy Orbison
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“I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.” -Janet Napolitano
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“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.” -E. B. White
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“I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside.” -Joseph Brodsky
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“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.” -Milan Kundera
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“Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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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.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.” -Tom Stoppard
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“I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there’s nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There’s a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.” -Hugh Leonard
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“There is 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.” -Washington Irving
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“I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don’t have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.” -Sebastian Vettel
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“If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.” -B. F. Skinner
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“The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.” -Hugo Black
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“People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.” -Bobby Knight
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“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” -Max Frisch
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“Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it’s not quite the same thing.” -Doug Coupland
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“Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.” -Peter Schuyler
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“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” -R. D. Laing
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“There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.” -Nolan Ryan
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“There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.” -Denis Diderot
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“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.” -Richard P. Feynman
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“It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.” -Annette Funicello
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“As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.” -Wendy Carlos
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“You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.” -Van Morrison
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“All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.” -Paul Hawken
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“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” -Isabel Allende
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“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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“I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.” -George W. Bush
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“As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I’m still not comfortable, but that’s why I change and adapt the way I look.” -Marilyn Manson
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“I’m a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.” -Natalie Portman
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“I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” -Richard Nelson Bolles
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“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.” -Andre Gide
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“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.” -Joseph Addison
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“Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn’t mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense – the idea that anyone can make it.” -Fareed Zakaria
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“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.” -Saul Alinsky
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“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” -W. Edwards Deming
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“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.” -Giordano Bruno
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“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” -Joyce Meyer
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“You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.” -Les Brown
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“I don’t believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it’s really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.” -Olivia Thirlby
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“Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role… I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘We want to remake ‘The Jerk’ with so and so.’ And…
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“We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.” -Eric Hoffer
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“I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.” -Henry Rollins
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“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.” -Alice Walker
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“Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.” -Gordon Ramsay
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“If people don’t like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that’s too bad. I don’t want to change to be something that I’m not for other people to like me.” -Vanessa Hudgens
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“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.” -Jean Paul
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“In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We’ve got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.” -Chuck Norris
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“Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.” -Doug E. Fresh
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“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.” -Cal Thomas
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“We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.” -Karen Armstrong
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“We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.” -Serj Tankian
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“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.” -Lord Acton
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“I don’t think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It’s just maturity. I’ve become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.” -Ricky Williams
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“Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.” -Madeleine Albright
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“While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.” -Max Muller
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“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.” -Gerald Jampolsky
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“No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.” -Frank Zappa
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“People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.” -Albert Ellis
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“To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It’s like makeup. It’s the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.” -Vera Wang
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“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.” -Muhammad Yunus
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“Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind.” -Langston Hughes
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“Change of weather is the discourse of fools.” -Thomas Fuller
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“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.” -Moliere
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“You know, I don’t really do that much looking inside me when I’m working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.” -Steven Spielberg
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“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.” -Lee Iacocca
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“People are starting to go on about my weight but I’m not going to change my size because they don’t like the way I look.” -Adele
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“We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.” -Stephen King
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“There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.” -Ferdinand Marcos
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“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.” -Warren Beatty
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“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.” -Jane Goodall
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“You can change friends but not neighbours.” -Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.” -Marcel Proust
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“All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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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.” -Samuel Johnson
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“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” -Robin Williams
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“Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.” -Laurence Sterne
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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” -Alexander Pope
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“As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.” -Carter G. Woodson
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“As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” -Amy Poehler
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“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” -Mary McLeod Bethune
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“Some people change when they think they’re a star or something.” -Paris Hilton
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“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.” -James Russell Lowell
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“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.” -Stephen Hawking
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“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.” -Mason Cooley
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“What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don’t change.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.” -George Santayana
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“The Roman Catholic Church isn’t going to change its theologies.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“People can cry much easier than they can change.” -James A. Baldwin
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“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.” -John Ruskin
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“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.” -Bill Watterson
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“I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” -David Sedaris
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“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.” -William Feather
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“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” -Edmund Burke
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“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” -Earl Nightingale
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“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.” -Steven Biko
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“If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don’t know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.” -Mark Burnett
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“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.” -John Steinbeck
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“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.” -Doris Lessing
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“That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.” -Charles Dickens
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“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.” -John D. MacDonald
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“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” -Will Durant
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“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.” -Denis Waitley
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“The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.” -Maxwell Maltz
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“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” -Brian Tracy
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“As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.” -Bono
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“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” -Andy Warhol
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“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.” -Peter Drucker
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“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.” -Gary Busey
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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.” -John C. Maxwell
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“I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.” -Woody Allen
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“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” -Bertrand Russell
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“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” -Tom Brokaw
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“I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.” -Nicholas Sparks
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“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.” -Horace
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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.” -Mao Zedong
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“I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.” -Olivia Munn
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“On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.” -Hillary Clinton
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“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.” -Karl Marx
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“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.” -Robert Mugabe
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“Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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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.” -Isaac Asimov
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“We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.” -Deepak Chopra
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“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person’s day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are…
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