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Change Quotes
"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible."
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"It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual."
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
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"Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change."
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"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
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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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"There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics."
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"Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings."
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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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"I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there."
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"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
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"I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me."
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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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"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
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"The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change."
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"Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience."
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"Change is the medium to become who you wish to be."
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"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
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"If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim."
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"The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that."
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"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."
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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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"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."
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"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it."
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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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"At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work."
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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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"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
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"The European nations take climate change very seriously."
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"I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators."
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"So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there."
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"I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person."
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"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters."
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