"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."

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"But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die."

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"THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING."

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"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."

"A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial."

"For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change."

"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle stricken with a dart Said when he saw the fashion of the shaft 'With our own feathers not by others' hands Are we now smitten.'"

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"Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process."

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"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."

"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."