"The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins."

Change, Civilization, World, Years

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"The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins."

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"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."

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"The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform."

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"And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture."

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"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."

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"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."

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"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."

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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."

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"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."

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"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."

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