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Change Quotes


"No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some."


"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."


"Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being."


"Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."


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


"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."


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



"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen."


"To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions."


"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."


"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."


"In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy."


"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."


"The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money."


"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."


"Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change."


"Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways."


"While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should."


"My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that."


"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."


"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle."


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


"If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone."


"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."


"The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries."


"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
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