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• Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Peace, Responsibility, People

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• Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

  Noam Chomsky

  Education, Time, School

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• This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, World, Strange

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

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• So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

  Herbie Hancock

  Names, People, Way

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• When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

  Anita Hill

  Thinking, Things Change, Happened

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• You can't jam change down the American people's throat.

  Dennis Hastert

  People, Jam, Throat

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• We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

  Barry Gibb

  Enjoy, Disco, Areas

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• We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

  Judd Gregg

  Successful, Iraq, Regimes

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• The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  May, Salvation, Dread

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

  Phil Crosby

  Preparation, World, Today

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• We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Life, Believe, Challenging The Status Quo

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• Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

  Alvin Toffler

  Life Changing, Process, Our Lives

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

  Mark Twain

  Prejudice, Easy, Bless

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.371, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to change the world, change yourself.

  Madonna Ciccone

  World, Want, Celebration Of Life

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• A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Photography

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

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• You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Writing, Reality, Order

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• Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Ideas, Pakistan, Coercion

  FaceBook post by Pervez Musharraf from Dec 26, 2011

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• A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Moments, Distinguished

  Principles of Biology Pt I, Ch. 4, Sect. 25

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• Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

  Lawren Harris

  Unity, Mind, Watches

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• Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Names, Careers

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.

  Bern Will Brown

  Ideas, No Idea

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• When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Two, Differences, Different

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Definitions, Generations

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• Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Meaningless

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• The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Ideas, World

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