“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.”
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“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.”
“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
“Change of weather is the discourse of fools.”
“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”
“Nothing endures but change.”
“The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.”
“If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.”
“The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.”
“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.”
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”
“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.”
“If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.”
“I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.”
“What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.”
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
“When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.”
“I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.”
“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.”