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Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that wor...

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You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new stree...

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Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as...

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But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the t...

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Sarah DessenLock and Key

I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward...

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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality ...

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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 al...

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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p...

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Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best...

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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous inter...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

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Seth GodinSmall Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs

It’s all a risk. Always. That’s not true, actually. The only exception: it’s a certainty that there’...

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Seth GodinTribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change arou...

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If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to...

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Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really st...

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I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency ...

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I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. A...

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Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunat...

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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight....

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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past tha...

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Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: her...

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...

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But though hast come and all will surely change.

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Sri AurobindoSavitri: A Legend and a Symbol

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result f...

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Stanley CavellPursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedir...

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Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun wi...

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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat...

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I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part ...

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People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in ...

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Stephen Jay GouldThe Structure of Evolutionary Theory

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-u...

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I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then an...

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A change is as good as a rest.

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Stephen KingHearts in Atlantis

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...

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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...

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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were th...

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I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy i...

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I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, ...

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What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use ...

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet de...

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Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes...

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The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by ...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount...

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You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t...

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People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely dif...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards...

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...

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I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from actin...

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Susan SontagAt the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it,...

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Suzanne CollinsGregor and the Code of Claw

Maybe it was impossible. But maybe it wasn't. Like Vikus said, nothing would happen unless you hoped...

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Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make...

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I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against ...

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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows fr...

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so th...

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What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.

What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.

Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile ...

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If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo great...

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The world turns and the world changes,But one thing does not change.In all of my years, one thing do...

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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

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Tamora PierceThe Woman Who Rides Like a Man

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also lo...

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You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh...

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And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...

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There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but...

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That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreci...

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The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a be...

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It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the Engli...

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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest contin...

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in oursel...

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So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty no...

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