"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."

Change, History, Present

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"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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

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"You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying."

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"There are few things that will remain constant over the long run."

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"To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things."

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"No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets."

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"I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there."

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"As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room."

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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

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"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event."

Fact

"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."

Society

"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2."

Existence

"We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy."

Psychology

"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is."

People

"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."

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"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love."

Love

"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."

Despair

"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."

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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."

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