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• A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

  George Santayana

  Hype, Currency, Fraud

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.110, 谷月社

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• Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

  Michelle Obama

  Hurt, Kids, Vegetables

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• People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes.

  Hoda Kotb

  School, Thinking, Years

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• One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Waiting, Albums, Kind

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.

  Duane Elgin

  Character, Environmental, Who We Are

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• Millions of small changes can be done, and through that, there can be a bigger impact because anybody can talk to another person. Anybody can educate somebody if they feel like their neighbor is stupid. It's more like "Educate thy neighbor, my friend." I think that enthusiasm, and not giving into lazy-minded cynicism, is where the potential and hope is.

  Eugene Hutz

  Stupid, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.gogolbordello.com

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• Our efforts for inclusive growth are holistic and not piecemeal; well planned and not knee jerk reactions; not for small changes but for quantum leap; making people the partners in growth not just beneficiaries; addressing the local needs by using global ideas and technology. And this is why our efforts in e-governance have been applauded the world over.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Ideas, People

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• A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design Process, Different, Ends

  "DM25 What Next for Design? with Jonathan Ive". Interview with Deyan Sudjic, designmuseum.org. November 12, 2014.

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• It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

  Bob Harper

  Lasting Change, Healthy, Doing You

  Source: movieweb.com

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• "The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.

  Andrew Greeley

  Change, War, Mistake

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• The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Epidemics, Differences, Church

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• Donald Trump business connections, which are really horrifying. I mean, they make Hillary Clinton look like small change when it comes to influence peddlin and really engaging the most nefarious forces around the world.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, Connections, Looks

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Attitude

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• Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Wealth, Contact

  "The Death and Life of Great American Cities".

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• Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Often Is, Found, Seats

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Reform, Asking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Simple, Jail

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.322, Macmillan

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• Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Helping

  Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.33, Penguin

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• Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by making small changes in our lives to letting our voice be heard by our governing bodies. As has always been the case in this country, if the people demand change, it will come.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Country, Time, Real

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• Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

  Lord Byron

  Love, People, Coins

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• This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.

  Susan Hill

  Morning, Light, Perfection

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• If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.  That's not gallons, but barrels.  Small changes in buying habits can make big differences.  Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Oil, Differences

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

  Roger Enrico

  Creativity, Bigs, Tyranny

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• Popularity? It's glory's small change.

  Victor Hugo

  Recognition, Popularity, Glory

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