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Change Quotes


"Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century."


"A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world."


"Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community."


"A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability."


"The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened."


"I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things."


"When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true."


"But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you."



"Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity."


"But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share."


"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."



"Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country."


"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."


"These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan."


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


"No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state."


"When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this"."


"There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master."


"Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change."


"Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you."


"In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything."


"I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness."


"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."


"The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss."


"Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition."


"Just that maybe, maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds."



"The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."


"In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change."


"If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that."


"Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later."


"I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too."


"If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction."


"Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation."
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