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"You must change in order to survive."
Pearl Bailey
"You must change in order to survive."
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"Don't manage - lead change before you have to."
Jack Welch
"Don't manage - lead change before you have to."
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"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
Franz Liszt
"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
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"As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde."
Sigourney Weaver
"As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde."
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"If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues."
Ilchi Lee
"If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues."
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"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
Philip Warren Anderson
"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
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"Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs."
Stone Gossard
"Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs."
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"The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries."
Nancy Pelosi
"The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries."
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"At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people."
Howard Dean
"At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people."
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"They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped."
Kenneth Blackwell
"They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped."
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"Slowness to change usually means fear of the new."
Phil Crosby
"Slowness to change usually means fear of the new."
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"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
Emma Goldman
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
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"Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way."
Cliff Burton
"Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way."
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"All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population."
Ernst Mayr
"All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population."
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"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
Jonathan Franzen
"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
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"I want to reach over and grab her hand to comfort her. I want to say something reassuring to her. If this were yesterday, I'm sure I would have done that without a second thought. But it's not yesterday. It's today, and Charlie and I are complete strangers today."
Colleen Hoover
"I want to reach over and grab her hand to comfort her. I want to say something reassuring to her. If this were yesterday, I'm sure I would have done that without a second thought. But it's not yesterday. It's today, and Charlie and I are complete strangers today."
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"I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that."
Henry Rollins
"I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that."
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"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."
William Ames
"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."
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"To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful."
Richard O'Brien
"To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful."
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"What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile."
Hermann Hesse
"What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile."
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"Take down the walls."
Lauren Oliver
"Take down the walls."
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"Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time."
Alex Campbell
"Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time."
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"Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away."
Aeschylus
"Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away."
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"Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing."
Marcello Mastroianni
"Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing."
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"We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years."
Steven Tyler
"We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years."
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"It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis."
Henry Miller
"It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis."
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"Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change."
Steven Curtis Chapman
"Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change."
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"My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way."
Guy Hamilton
"My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way."
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"One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding."
Andrzej Wajda
"One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding."
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"Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety."
Mary Wesley
"Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety."
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"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
Greg Anderson
"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
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"I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally."
Fritz Sauckel
"I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally."
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"There had once been a time when I'd dreaded the end of summer, had prayed it would hold out for as long as possible. Now the thought of endless warmth and sun made me . . . bored. Restless."
Sarah J. Maas
"There had once been a time when I'd dreaded the end of summer, had prayed it would hold out for as long as possible. Now the thought of endless warmth and sun made me . . . bored. Restless."
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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
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"I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight."
James Levine
"I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight."
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"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."
David Attenborough
"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."
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"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
John Geddes
"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
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"Have you no idea of progress, of development?""I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it 'Going Bad' in Narnia."
C. S. Lewis
"Have you no idea of progress, of development?""I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it 'Going Bad' in Narnia."
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"If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version."
Walter Hill
"If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version."
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"Change is wonderful, and necessary."
Darren L. Johnson
"Change is wonderful, and necessary."
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"But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush."
John Sebastian
"But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush."
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"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
Sydney J. Harris
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
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"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress."
Bruce Barton
"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress."
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"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
William Glasser
"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
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"If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country."
Charles Sturt
"If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country."
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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."
Harold Bloom
"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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"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
Jessamyn West
"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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"Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that."
John Galliano
"Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that."
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"It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day."
Frank B. Kellogg
"It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day."
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"Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change."
Valerie Jarrett
"Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change."
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