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• but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

  Jim Butcher

  War, Technology, Disease

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.14, Penguin

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• ...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

  E. M. Forster

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.

  George Harrison

  Real, Lying, Light

  "Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead". Book by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1970.

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• You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you’ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You’ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That’s one thing I’ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.

  Paula McLain

  Heart, Love Is, Way

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• But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while I'm the freak. It's not fair; like all the rules have suddenly changed and somebody forgot to tell me.

  Lauren Oliver

  Other Worlds, People, Giving

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sorry, Games, Play

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• Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today?

  Robin Hobb

  Mother, Children, Greatness

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.297, Spectra

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• An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, People, Pessimism

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.61, Octagon Press Ltd

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• It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

  Leonard Cohen

  Real, Names, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.176, Vintage

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• He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.

  Julie Garwood

  Revenge, Eye, Feet

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

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• [A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Real, Thinking

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• She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each other down, and yet, here they were after everything, together. She needed him now, needed him to remind her that she was live, that she wasn't alone, that she hadn't lost everything.

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Men, Years

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.1152, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

  Mitch Albom

  Expression, Long, Mind

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Stupid People

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

  Paulo Coelho

  Wind, Alchemist, Desert

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• Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Healthy, Church

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2001). “When We Were Orphans”, p.95, Vintage

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• 'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Writing, Unique, Reality

  "The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea".

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• When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

  Nicholas Sparks

  Forever, Seventeen

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Walk To Remember”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Hello, Harry!” she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,” said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?” she asked brightly. “How did you know — ?” “Oh, just your expression,” she said. Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessorized with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. At least there were no radishes dangling from her ears.

  J. K. Rowling

  Father, Hair, Expression

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• Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’ Grandible’s jowl wobbled and creased. Then, for the first time that Neverfell could remember, he changed to a Face she had never seen before, a frown more ferocious and alarming than either of the others. ‘Who the shambles told you that?’ he barked. ‘Spoilt? I’ll spoil them.’ He took hold of her chin and examined her. ‘A bit sadder, maybe. A bit wiser. But nothing rotten. You’re just growing yourself a rind at last. Still a good cheese.

  Frances Hardinge

  Rotten, Answers, Growing

  Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.

  Nick Hornby

  Internet, Forgotten

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• what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

  Italo Calvino

  Lying, Past, Journey

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• From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

  Justina Chen

  Heart, Ideas, Leaving

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