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John Keegan

"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people."

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"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people."

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"Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?"

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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 well."

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"Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change."

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"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself."

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"The change we want is within us and shall always be within us, the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!"

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

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"In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change."

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"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

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"Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions."

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

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"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
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