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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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So before we end and then beginWe'll drink a toast to how it's beenA few more hours to be completeA ...

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offend...

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Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ...

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People are crazy and times are strange,I'm locked in tightI'm out of range,I use to carebut things h...

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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a c...

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I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever cha...

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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to cha...

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Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people gettin...

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Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you wer...

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There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...

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It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways...

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Brandon SandersonThe Well of Ascension

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

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Brené BrownI Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

If we are ever going to achieve a rational approach to organizing our affairs, we have to dignify th...

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Brian EnoWhat Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this n...

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... To be in time means to change.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is...

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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how ...

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Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fr...

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But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't w...

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And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss s...

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Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. I...

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All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and ...

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a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

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Charles BukowskiTales of Ordinary Madness

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, t...

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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small ...

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The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was do...

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Charles DickensGreat Expectations

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer ...

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The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change thems...

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Charles de LintSomeplace to Be Flying

I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my...

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Charles de LintThe Little Country

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail...

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I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleas...

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it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of h...

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Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it re...

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My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when ...

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You can change a body, but you can't change a soul. The heart wants what it wants.

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate ch...

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Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, b...

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There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its ...

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Christopher HitchensPrepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change thei...

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A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's froze...

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In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tai...

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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to ...

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Fashion changes, but style endures.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ...

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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority...

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To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms o...

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In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must acce...

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Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. W...

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I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I ha...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and acr...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more

Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone a...

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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's...

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If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By chang...

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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are co...

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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you t...

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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. An...

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If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death bec...

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Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies...

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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a b...

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The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the prese...

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Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our...

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It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer spa...

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Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes an...

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There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and ...

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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but...

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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way...

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You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince you...

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What has been is no more. Change has come.

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Dean KoontzDead and Alive

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and ...

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Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wound...

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I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability...

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It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in...

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is imm...

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Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of ...

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Deepak ChopraSuper Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it bu...

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Deepak ChopraThe Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore