“There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.”
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“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.”
“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
“I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”
“Satire doesn't effect change.”
“There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.”
“All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.”
“I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.”
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.”
“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”
“As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.”
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.”
“We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.”
“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.”
“Some people change when they think they're a star or something.”
“To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.”
“I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.”
“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”
“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
“Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.”