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Change Quotes
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
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"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."
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"Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave."
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"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."
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"Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue."
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"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."
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"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
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"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
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"Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning."
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"When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change."
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"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."
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"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."
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"The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word."
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"Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives."
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"We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him."
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."
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"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."
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"Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you."
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
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"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""
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"I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too."
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"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
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"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along."
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"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
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"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially."
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"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
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"Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change."
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"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."
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"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."
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"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
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"Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction."
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"As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser."
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