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"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."
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"No matter how disappointing you believe your life currently is, it is never too late to start reshaping it to become an amazing testimony."
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"Things don't only change, they also change you; sometimes for good, sometimes not."
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"Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires."
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"The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body."
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"You will never get to a new place by walking an old path."
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"The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will."
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"One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution."
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"When we don't fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears."
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"Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life."
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"To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways."
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"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."
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"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."
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"I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron."
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"Shakespeare is universal."
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"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."
Change

"I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene."
Progress

"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic."
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"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."
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"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."
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"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say."
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