"The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened."

Change, People, Beliefs, Living

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"The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened."

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

Colin Mochrie, Scottish Actor

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"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

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"People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tight I'm out of range, I use to care but things have changed."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."

Stafford Cripps, British Politician

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"You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change."

Francesca Annis, English Actress

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"The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different."

Kenneth Edmonds, American Musician

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"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

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"I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was."

A. J. Foyt, American Celebrity

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"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."

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"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."

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"We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery."

History, May, Vulnerability

"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."

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"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."

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"So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency."

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"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."

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"To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them."

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"Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state."

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"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."

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