Change Quotes
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History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick.
Edward Hallett Carr
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The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.
Richie Havens
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
Manolo Blahnik
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I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.
Dolly Parton
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
Josiah Strong
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If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police.
Uri Orbach
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I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.
Keith Hobbs
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If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why
Daniel Jones Savage Garden
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
Louise Erdrich
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You have to respect the system. If you have a problem with the system, change the system.
Jack Kingston
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The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
Zig Ziglar
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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
Cary Fowler
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Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
Albert Bandura
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You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.
Keanu Reeves
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After all, it's me that needs to change, not my circumstances.
Mike Donehey Tenth Avenue North
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
Heraclitus
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We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.
Gary DeMar
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After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!
Roger Taylor Queen
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We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.
Fidel Castro
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
Pat Conroy
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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Yesterday and days before, the sun’s been knocking at my door. But I would always have you near. You said you’d change, you shed a tear. But I’ve been away from you. I’m over you.
Jeremy Loops