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“Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.”— Nick Clegg
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“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.”— Charles Sanders Peirce
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“I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.”— Ben Okri
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“I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.”— Andy Murray
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“Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.”— Michael Porter
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“The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.”— Paul Wellstone
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“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.”— Jeanette Winterson
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“One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.”— Peter Steele
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“Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.”— Brett Favre
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“I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.”— Al Gore
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“I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.”— Jeanette Winterson
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“Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.”— Jeff Cooper
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“I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.”— Rick Springfield
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“It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.”— John H. Johnson
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“I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.”— Debra Winger
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“I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.”— Jeanette Winterson
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“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.”— Muqtada al Sadr
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“You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.”— Gael Garcia Bernal
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“The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.”— Al Gore
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“There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.”— Brett Favre
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“I don't change. The things around me change.”— Jeremy Renner
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“We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.”— Joan D. Vinge
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“I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.”— Eddie Izzard
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“The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.”— Gene Tierney
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“I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.”— Harlan Coben