"I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it."

Change, Disease, Order, Past

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"I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it."

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

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Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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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."

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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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"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."

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