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Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation Proclamation he advises some blacks to labor faithfully for reasonable wages, here in the United States. He doesn't say anything about them leaving the country. He puts black men in the army. That is a whole different vision than simply saying "let's have them go out of the country." I think what's interesting is the change in Lincoln's view, but one must realize that he did adhere to this idea of colonization for many years.
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For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
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If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
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If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.
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Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
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The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
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We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.
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Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."
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Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.
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Education can change the scope of an entire family.
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The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
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When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.
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Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?
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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.
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Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
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The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children.
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Not democracy has to change, but democrats. We have to stand up again and fight for our cause ... perhaps populism is our chance ... because its dull simplicity forces ourselves to also convince with clear and comprehensible language on what we stand for: A tolerant, open-minded, democratic society inside Europe.
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I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.
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The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.
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People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.
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I have several things that I'm working on and trying to put together. It's hard to say exactly what's next. I think I know what it is, but until I'm actually doing it, I never want to say because things change.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
