"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

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"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

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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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"When it is time for religion to vanish from the face of earth upon having finished its service of psychological reinforcement to humanity, Mother Nature will make that happen one way or another."

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"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

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"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."

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"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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

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"A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Scholars postulate that the only thing that does not change is the every varying world. Other renowned thinkers postulate that the natural state of all things is to remain the same. Perhaps both propositions are vital. Perhaps it is normal to resist change because it threatens our present state of being. Perhaps it is natural to attempt to preserve the status quo because we are part of the external world and we wish to persevere, not expire. Perhaps it is inevitable that we all change. The natural forces are impossible to blunt."

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