"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."

Change, History, Washington

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"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."

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"The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that's the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life."

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

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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"We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today."

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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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"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."

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"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."

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"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."

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