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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try instead to work with what you've got.

Peter Drucker

The horizon leans forward offering you space to place new steps of change.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Richard Bach

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Don't knock the weather, nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interest are at stake.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same but the medical practice changes.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

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

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

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways, but the things that make me late are too strong and too pleasing.

Marilyn Monroe

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults and everyone sees them, they change and everyone looks up to them.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

It was pride that changed angels into devils, it is humility that makes men as angels.

In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I think the biggest change is we have a system that we believe in and we trust ... It's Phil and the system? Absolutely. It's a beautiful system. When everything's clicking, it's a beautiful thing to watch.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Richard M. Nixon

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

Change in all things is sweet.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Alexis de Tocqueville

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Poverty is the parent of revolution

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house, to coming home.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given, than to explore the power they have to change it. 

Muhammad Ali

Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.

Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare

Even when laws have been written down they ought not always to remain unaltered.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

A heart well prepared for adversity, in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Bob Dylan

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears, there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Climate change is a terrible problem and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may by change of circumstances become his own.

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.

They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself.

I want to change things for the better just like everybody else.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter but characters are only developed.

In order to change the world you have to get your head together first.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence, but we thought if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

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.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

Change the changeable accept the unchangeable and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

My role is pretty much unchanged.

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.

Pope John Paul II

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

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.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.

I started changing my swing in late 1999.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything, save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented didn't they? People feared coal they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance and ignorance leads to fear. But with time people will come to accept their silicon masters.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles, others their principles for the sake of their party.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

If a person doesn't change there's something really wrong with him.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

In those days most people read newspapers whereas today most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor of course is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.

Poetry should help not only to refine the language of the time but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T. S. Eliot

If you do not change direction you may end up where you are heading.

I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Norman Vincent Peale

You cannot change your destination overnight but you can change your direction overnight.

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.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received, it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

The only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

Or heritage and ideals our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours so we can pay the bills, or do the laundry, or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Michelle Obama

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Let nothing disturb thee nothing affright thee, all things are passing, God never changeth.

In a progressive country change is constant, change is inevitable.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

As today is a sacred day dedicated to women they should change themselves and help to change the men and the children. They should develop the qualities of sympathy compassion, love and sacrifice.

As in geology, so in social institutions we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past so we change how people are thinking feeling and behaving today.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety, is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

Paul Ryan

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances the seasons or the wind but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy no soul. But it changes every day.

After careful consideration the board decided that a change in management is in the best interest of the company's shareholders.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions, the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.

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.

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.

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

Nothing endures but change.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

Michelle Obama

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.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation and gentle ones by permanence.

Jean Paul

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

The world we see, that seems so insane, is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem the most important problem is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them.

Marcus Aurelius

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands and tens of thousands of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Things do not change, we change.

Win as if you were used to it lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

All I want to do is change the world.

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

Now it's $200 billion. If we don't change the course the rest of the world could own $15 trillion of us. That's pretty substantial. That's equal to the value of all American stock.

Fancy and Fantasy rule the mind of man. You desire one thing in the morning, at noon you change over to something else. That desire will not persist until evening. If your desire is fulfilled you praise God and parade your devotion. But if it does not prevail you throw God overboard and parade your disbelief!

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.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Excuses change nothing but make everyone feel better.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Change alone is unchanging.

If you don't change then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

In too many instances the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Here on the river's verge I could be busy for months without changing my place simply leaning a little more to right or left.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

My play 'Safe Sex' was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Billy Graham

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.

No one is in control of your happiness but you, therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

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 I say 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.

In the Spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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.

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves, we must die to one life before we can enter another.

You want an example (of how things have changed since the 81). 'Kobe you suck

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama your agenda is not new. It's not change and it's not hope.

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November and that's what we intend to deliver.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Taste may change but inclination never.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

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

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

What exactly is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer anywhere that is equipped with a device called a 'modem' can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap but it can make great changes happen.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are though because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Eminem

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless brain-rotting drivel on TV we on the Internet are exchanging freely and openly the most uninhibited intimate and yes shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.

My nature just changes.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.

Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

For changes to be of any true value they've got to be lasting and consistent.

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.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Frank Zappa

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful positive life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

O earth what changes hast thou seen!

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.

Relentless repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Time has been transformed and we have changed, it has advanced and set us in motion, it has unveiled its face inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Colors like features follow the changes of the emotions.

Words when written crystallize history, their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven which was the main teaching of Jesus is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase others diminish and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

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

Change like sunshine can be a friend or a foe a blessing or a curse a dawn or a dusk.

On some campuses change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Mahatma Gandhi

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

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.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

If you accept the expectations of others especially negative ones then you never will change the outcome.

I'm sorry it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born we live for a brief instant and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

If Phil and Tex feel like making a change would be better for the team that's what we will do. We trust them wholeheartedly.

Kobe Bryant

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds bodies and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to we will instantly change our behaviors.

People got insights into what was bothering them but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Albert Ellis

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

It is often when night looks darkest it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Hillary Clinton

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear

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.

What starts the process really are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence personal gut performance.

Richard M. Nixon

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

If you realize that all things change there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I personally think it would be better if the NYSE remained as a neutral not-for-big-profit institution. The exchange has done a very good job over the centuries. It's one of the most important institutions in the world. The enemy of investment is activity.... I know the American investor will not be better off if volume doubles on the NYSE and I know the NYSE will be trying to figure out how to do that if it is trying to maximize its own earnings per share. GM or IBM will not earn more money if their stock turns over more actively but a for-profit NYSE will.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants airports streets hotel lobbies parks and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

A state is not a mere society having a common place established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Will Rogers

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Francis Bacon

Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

John Wooden

There's no reason to change what you are but if you're not being you then you need to acknowledge that.

Time which changes people does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust

When individuals change society will change. And when society changes the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day which can change the course of your year which can change who you are.

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing dismay thee, All thing pass, God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Now we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year over 26 billion tons. For each American it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving' and then you do it.

In order to effect great change we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

That's what learning is after all, not whether we lose the game but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing in a curious way is winning.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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.

Mind can have peace only when it merges in the Absolute Consciousness Primal Cause and the Unchanging Existence.

Sai Baba

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.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format five eight 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners so since writing books the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials and it can also end up in one of the books.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character would you slow down? Or speed up?

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all He would still be there within us waiting to give us good on this earth.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up I change bats. After all if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting how can I get mad at myself?

All things must change to something new to something strange.

With genetic engineering we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

We can change our lives. We can do have and be exactly what we wish.

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