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• Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

  Robert Breault

  Mean, Want, Accepting

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• We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

  Havelock Ellis

  Past, Self, World

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Vacuums, Filled, Humans

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• Nought endures but change.

  Ludwig Borne

  Endure

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• In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Practice, Dumb, Age

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• All things human change.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Humans, All Things

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1198, Delphi Classics

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• Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

  Rumi

  Old Buildings, Firsts, Building

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• The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Novelty

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.71, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

  Bernard Malamud

  Ears, World, Today

  Bernard Malamud (1983). “The Stories of Bernard Malamud”, p.350, Macmillan

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• The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.

  Susan Sontag

  Historical, Intellectual, Mind

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• Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Blue, Color, America

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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• One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Fighting, Doe, Influence

  Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (2007). “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism”, p.110, Chicago Review Press

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• It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

  E. Nesbit

  Wonderful, Used, Astonishing

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.503, Delphi Classics

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• We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Joy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Hate

  "Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Hands

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• I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Skeletons, Wings

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text”, p.83, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

  Isaac Newton

  Moving, Science, Body

  Isaac Newton (2004). “Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Omnipotence, Circles

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works”, p.726

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• Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Science, Wind, Giving

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• [My advice] will one day be found
  With other relics of 'a former world,'
  When this world shall be former, underground,
  Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled,
  Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned,
  Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled
  First out of, and then back again to Chaos,
  The Superstratum which will overlay us.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Advice, One Day

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.212

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• A bowl rotates faster at the top than at the bottom.

  Aminu Kano

  Faster, Bottom, Bowls

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• In pain is a new time born.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Pain, Born

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• I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

  Anthony de Mello

  Selfish, Love You, Years

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