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"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change."

"In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change."

Abdallah II, Jordanian King of Jordan

Change, Successful, Reform, Will

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"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

Change, Positive, Being, Lies

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"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakian Leader

Change, People, Artist, Job

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"The great growling engine of change - technology."

"The great growling engine of change - technology."

Alvin Toffler, American Author

Change, Technology

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"Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!"

"Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!"

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Change, Growth, Innocence, Marriage

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"We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun."

"We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Change, Events, Moment, Life

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"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."

"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Change, Men, Peace, Awareness

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"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Change, Life, Bed, Desire

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"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."

"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman

Change, Direction, Jobs, World

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"The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."

"The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."

Douglass North, American Economist

Change, Development, Performance

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"Change is the end result of all true learning."

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

Leo Buscaglia, American Author

Change, End, Learning, Result

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"That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time."

"That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time."

Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen Statesman

Change, Time, Government, Struggle

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"I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't."

"I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't."

Kieran Culkin, American Actor

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"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

Change, Activist, Nhat Hanh

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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."

Amelia Earhart, American Aviator

Change, Life, Control, Decision

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"It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times."

"It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times."

Margaret Mahy, New Zealander Author

Change, Ideas, Newzealander

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"You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world."

"You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

Change, Feelings, Chance, Theater

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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."

"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."

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

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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."

"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."

Peter Garrett, Australian Musician

Change, Climate, Climate change, Research

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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."

"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."

Lord Acton, British Historian

Change, Eternity, Laws, Manners

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"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."

"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."

Angela Merkel, German Statesman

Change, Question

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"The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day."

"The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day."

Leonardo DiCaprio, American Actor

Change, Character, Acting, Day

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"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician

Change, Life, Opportunity, Adventure

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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Reinhold Niebuhr, American Theologian

Change, Wisdom, God, Courage

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"You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something."

"You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something."

James Carville, American Lawyer

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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

Change, Thoughts, World

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"If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect."

"If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect."

Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer

Change, Fault, Greed, Will

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"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."

"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Change, Legal, Thought, Profession

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"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."

"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."

Freda Adler, American Educator

Change, Heart, Conformity, Contradiction

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"The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road."

"The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road."

Laura Ingalls Wilder, American Author

Change, Day, Road

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"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."

"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."

Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist

Change, Improvement, Managers, Mathematicians

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"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

Change, Journalism, World

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"The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?"

"The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?"

Max de Pree, American Executive

Change, Leadership, Conflict, Followers

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"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."

"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."

Robert C. Gallagher, American Editor

Change, Machine

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"The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation."

"The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation."

Peter Garrett, Australian Musician

Change, Power, People, Climate

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"In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"

"In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"

Carl Rogers, American Psychologist

Change, Growth, Cure, May

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"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

Alan Perlis, American Scientist

Change, Progress, Programming

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"But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies."

"But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies."

Christie Hefner, American Businessman

Change, Women, Age, Business

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"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."

Michael Jordan, American Athlete

Change, Negative, Expectations, Will

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds."

"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Change, People, Favorite, Will

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"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty."

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty."

Jessica Mitford, American Journalist

Change, May, World

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"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change."

"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

Change, Men, Illness

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"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

Change, Life, Arrogance, Humility

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"I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me."

"I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me."

Teri Hatcher, American Actress

Change, God, Will

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"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."

"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Change, Ruin, Transformation, Gift

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"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."

"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."

Ralph Abernathy, American Activist

Change, History

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"I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York."

"I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York."

Morgan Brittany, American Actress

Change, Education, Name, Schools

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"Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight."

"Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight."

Sargent Shriver, American Politician

Change, Peace, World

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"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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