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I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics...

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Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.

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Mark HelprinWinter's Tale

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the ...

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facilit...

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that ...

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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have t...

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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happ...

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Marshall McLuhanForward Through The Rearview Mirror: Reflections On And By Marshall Mc Luhan

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through gre...

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It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words an...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of mis...

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We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the abil...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.The Autobiography of Martin Luther King

I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wantedmy life to close, a...

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I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close,...

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It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how y...

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Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefo...

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If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the...

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

You change your life by changing your heart.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color....

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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking t...

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There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will nev...

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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, w...

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the o...

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Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change...

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During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United St...

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Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire...

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If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions...

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Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a bu...

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Danny explained, “Reforms always create winners and losers, and the losers will always fight harder ...

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Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat ...

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I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic mod...

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But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything...

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When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to imp...

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The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next ...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hat...

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

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Mignon McLaughlinThe Complete Neurotic's Notebook

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relat...

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We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical...

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They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indiffe...

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Remember me for these days, not the old ones.

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Mitch AlbomFor One More Day

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. he...

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After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an op...

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That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his pri...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. Of course, we recognize that...

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Our relationship with Egypt is very, very important. And I would want them to remain an ally. I don'...

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I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're...

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This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything...

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There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, a...

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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us trem...

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The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfill...

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Changes are products of intensive efforts.

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Oh...why has time changed us?

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Naguib MahfouzPalace of Desire

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...

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Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enter...

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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people woul...

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I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.

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Neil GaimanSeason of Mists

How old are you?""About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did," Bod said, b...

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Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do...

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Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or somethin...

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Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, pe...

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Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As ...

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor mo...

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For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he can...

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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

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Nicholas SparksMessage in a Bottle

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circ...

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That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him fe...

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Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable....

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I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a ...

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Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for...

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There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, ...

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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

I made a resolution in 2010 to stop drinking Diet Coke, and I haven't had Diet Coke since then. I th...

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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinkin...

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The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...

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Over the last 25 years, the major popular movements that have had significant impact on the general ...

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