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"Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change."
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"Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons."
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""Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better."
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"I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution."
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"It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them."
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"If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom."
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"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment."
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"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."
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"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge."
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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."
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"If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it."
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"The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore."
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"Always believe you can change the world " even if it's only a tiny bit, because every tiny bit needed someone who changed it."
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"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."
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"It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy."
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"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."
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"The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change."
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"Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts."
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"Unknowingly we make our emotional states worse by using and relating high - intensity negative words to our experiences in life. You can use empowering/positive words to change how you think, which will then change your feelings, decisions and results."
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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."
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"Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change."
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"So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it."
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"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics, the oppressors' relationships."
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"Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified."
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"It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds."
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