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Change Quotes


"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."


"Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy."


"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world."


"In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change."


"Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now."


"We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being."


"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."


"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."


"I have set out to change the language of the international system."


"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."


"According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value."



"When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ['Corporeal prison']"


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


"I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname."


"They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time."


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


"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."


"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."


"There can be no progress without head-on confrontation."


"If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it."


"The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests."


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


"Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing."


"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."


"I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change."


"Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially."


"Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration."


"I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better."


"Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003."
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