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Norman Lear

"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."

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"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."

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Amber Hurdle

"Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life."

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"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

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"Make a change of your steps when necessary. "Status quo" is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory."

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"But it is not your own Shire,' said Gildor. 'Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."

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Amber Hurdle

"When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you."

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Amber Hurdle

"Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor."

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"There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time."

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Amber Hurdle

"For transformation to be successful, we the people must first liberate ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of religion."

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