"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."

Change, Earth, Value

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"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."

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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

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"Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?"

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Personal responsibility leads to national transformation."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"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."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"Now is the perfect time to start making those changes you know you need to make."

Scott Stabile, American Author

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"Rake your lifestyle. Gather all bitterness. Burn this bad attitude that has chocked the canals of your success. Be set free!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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