“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.”
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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”
“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.”
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
“I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”
“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
“Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.”
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”
“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.”
“Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.”
“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
“A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.”
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”