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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

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. ...

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If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argent...

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If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that ou...

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Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the roa...

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Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans ...

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Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to en...

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Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and...

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We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change...

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty y...

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What is happening is something new in my life. I think many people have a sense of shape, of unfoldi...

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Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. ...

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Dorothy AllisonSkin: Talking about Sex

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or...

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The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change ...

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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of cr...

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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that...

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I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy w...

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The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change y...

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A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred y...

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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhap...

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To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge...

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When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f...

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Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in y...

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Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, o...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find y...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And...

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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different...

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So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was ...

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Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capital...

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Edmund WilsonThe American Jitters: A Year of the Slump

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twen...

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The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

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Edward BellamyLooking Backward: 2000-1887

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.

Leadership can change its mind leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

The values of democracy, brotherhood, and freedom that constitute the building blocks of American so...

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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn...

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Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelli...

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I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perc...

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Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformati...

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Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w...

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I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all...

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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual chan...

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Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restle...

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I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that...

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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives...

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I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technolog...

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Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart...

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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought ...

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...

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Emma GoldmanAnarchism and Other Essays

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lo...

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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped...

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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...

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Eric HofferReflections on the Human Condition

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite ...

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I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despit...

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There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have...

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Erich FrommThe Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow...

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Erich FrommThe Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

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Erich FrommThe Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even withou...

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You ask my love completest,As strong next year as now,The devil take you, sweetest,Ere I make aught ...

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Ernest DowsonThe Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by ...

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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agita...

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All is change all yields its place and goes.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...

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Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you comb...

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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, be...

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I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he...

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I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't change the past.""Can't change the past?" he...

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It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to m...

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I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe...

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We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bi...

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I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.