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Change Quotes


"We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution."


"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals."


"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."


"Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with."


"The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done."


"As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement."


"All things must change to something new, to something strange."



"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."



"Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won."



"To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions."


"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."



"Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue."


"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."



"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."


"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."



"I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me."


"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."



"Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name."


"I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more."


"It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend."


"I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal."


"Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be."


"I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to."



"The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope."


"Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change."


"I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure."


"But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him."


"I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given."



"With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries."
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