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"Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?"
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"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."

"The change we want is within us and shall always be within us, the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!"

"Everything changes but change itself."

"Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle."

"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
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"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."

"The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind."

"We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention."

"Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against."

"Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not."

"But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?"

"The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them."

"Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it."

"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."
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