Change Quotes
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
Hal Sparks
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
Jack Ma
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
Jane Austen
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The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
Caitlin Moran
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Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.
Viggo Mortensen
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, 'Okay, I can deal with this person's personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I'm not gonna change myself to be their friend.'
J. B. Smoove
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Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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In hyperbolic tones he listed the catastrophes that in his view were approaching: one, the decline of the revolutionary subject par excellence, the working class; two, the definitive dispersion of the political patrimony of socialists and Communists, who were already perverted by their daily quarrel over which was playing the role of capital’s crutch; three, the end of every hypothesis of change, what was there was there and we would have to adapt to it.
Elena Ferrante
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
Tavi Gevinson
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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
Mahesh Babu
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To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
Eckhart Tolle
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It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.
Linda McMahon
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At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.
Abraham Lincoln
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
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Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
Naveen Jain
