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• I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

  Michael Tolkin

  Wine, Water, Treats

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• Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.

  Glenn Tipton

  Band, Way, Knows

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• So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

  Todd Tiahrt

  People, Pockets, Relief

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• With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Years, Civilization, Knowing

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

  Rod Taylor

  Names, Wanted, Studios

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• Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Football, Real

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• I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

  Allen Tate

  Believe, Keys, Term

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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• My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.

  Ryan Sypek

  Beautiful, Ocean, Water

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• Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Philosophy, Perfect, Doe

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• If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

  Charles Sturt

  Country, Valleys, Lines

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.34

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• But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Typical, Haste, Doe

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• When God would make His Name known to mankind He could find no better word than "I AM." When He speaks in the first person He says, "I AM"; when we speak of Him we say, "He is"; when we speak to Him we say, "Thou art." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point. "I am that I am," says God, "I change not."

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Names, Fixed, Mankind

  "The Pursuit of God".

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• Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Clouds, Cynthia

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.12

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• There, like the wind through woods in riot,
  Through him the gale of life blew high;
  The tree of man was never quiet:
  Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Wind, Tree

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Taken, Cutting

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.213, University of Georgia Press

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• To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Alive, Vulnerable

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• When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true.

  Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

  Giving, Easy, Being True

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• If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

  Dean Rusk

  Attention, Pay, Firsts

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• But times do change and move continually.

  Edmund Spenser

  Moving

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “THE FAERIE QUEENE.”, p.456

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• You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.

  Garrett Hardin

  Taken, Law, May

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• Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

  Grant Morrison

  Hell, Landmarks, Certain

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• One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

  Horace Mann

  Party, Principles, Made

  Horace Mann (1851). “Slavery: Letters and Speeches”, p.387

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• So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

  Isaac Watts

  Pain, Relief, Fever

  William Allen, Isaac Watts (1835). “Psalms and hymns for public worship: containing all the psalms and hymns of Dr. Watts which are deemed valuable, together with a new version of all the Psalms and many original hymns besides a large collection from other writers”, p.602

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• But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

  John Milton

  Art, Gone, Return

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 37

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• . . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.

  Milton Friedman

  Moving, Two, Goal

  Milton Friedman, Kurt R. Leube (1987). “The essence of Friedman”, Hoover Inst Pr

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