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• I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

  Emily Bronte

  Inspirational, Dream, Ever After

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.424, Penguin

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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 17, 2012

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• You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Attitude, Reality, Trying

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.

  Chinua Achebe

  Home, Weight, Able

  "Chinua Achebe: A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.

  Frank Zappa

  Kgb, People, Want

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• Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

  John Dryden

  Lost, Mankind

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.563, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Lasts, Saws

  A Tale of a Tub ch. 9 (1704)

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• It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

  John Lyly

  Ideas, Disposition

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• Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Change, Philosophical

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• Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Daughter, Mother, Dna

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Incidentally, the creationists that I've encountered diligently deny that our Earth's climate is being altered by people. This point of view and teaching is in absolutely no one's best interest. Here's hoping we can work together and preserve the Earth, for us - us humans.

  Bill Nye

  Teaching, Views, People

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

  Max Euwe

  Titles, Machines, Chess

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• I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.

  Iggy Pop

  Thinking, Years, Body

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• Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Overcoming, Natural, Inclination

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

  Carol Shields

  Morning, Powerful, Fall

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• This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

  Sarah Dessen

  Waiting, Over You, Finishing

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• "Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Jason, Would Be

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

  Tom Wolfe

  Brain, Machines, Speech

  "Tom Wolfe on How Speech Made Us Human". Interview with Steve Heilig, www.sfgate.com. March 16, 2008.

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• Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Salvation, Has Beens, Defined

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• Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge of perfect being, man would never know whether there was existence or non-existence. If eternal existence is altered, then it must become more beautiful; and if it disappears, it must return with more sublime image; and if it sleeps, it must dream of a better awakening, for it is ever greater upon its rebirth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Dream, Sleep

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