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"What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again."
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"The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day."
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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."
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"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."
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"I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't."
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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."
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"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
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"Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight."
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
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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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"Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change."
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"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."
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"Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was."
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"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
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"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
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"I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer."
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"Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it."
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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."
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"Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change."
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"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."
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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."
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"Some people change when they think they're a star or something."
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"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible."
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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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"It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot."
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"My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach."
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"We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor."
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"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
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"What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change."
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