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Anne Sullivan Macy

"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."

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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

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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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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

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"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

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"When our environment changes we change, and this combination of transformative deeds create a synergistic effect. Seemingly, insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes can eventfully lead to fundamental qualitative changes in the way a group of people function as a society."

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"Being happy where you are does not mean that you must unquestioningly accept parts of your environment that don't serve you. Where you are is inside of this amazing body, this beautiful moment, this capable mind. Where you are is inside of an eternal opportunity. And sometimes you need to change your environment to remember that."

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"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."

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"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."

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"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."

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"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."

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"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."

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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."

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"The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice."

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