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"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead."
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"Rather than waste or eliminate items which you don't currently use, discover a new way to improve and enjoy their value. What strengths and talents can you repurpose for a new endeavor? How can you re-purpose your thoughts to ensure they help you rather than hinder?"
"We change when circumstances necessitate it, we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all."
"Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process."
"For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change."
"There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man."
"If there is no room in the river, swim to the ocean."
"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."
"In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to 'disadjustments'."
"But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die."
"She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her."
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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."
"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
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