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A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
– Jenny Craig
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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
– Greg Anderson
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When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
– Robert Anthony
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
– Plutarch
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
– Kurt Lewin
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
– Charles F. Kettering
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You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
– William Arthur Ward
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
– Denis Waitley
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There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
– Stephen Covey
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
– Rumi
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
– Flannery O'Connor
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
– Nelson Mandela
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When you make a choice, you change the future.
– Deepak Chopra
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
– Carol Burnett
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
– Amelia Earhart
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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
– Brian Tracy
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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
– Richard Hooker
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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
– Jim Rohn
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead
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Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
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The key to change... is to let go of fear.
– Rosanne Cash
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
– Lord Acton
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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
– J. Donald Adams
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
– Joseph Addison
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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
– Jessica Alba
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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
– Muhammad Ali
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
– Saul Alinsky
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I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
– Woody Allen
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Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
– Chris Van Allsburg
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Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
– Tori Amos
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
– Barbara de Angelis
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
– Maya Angelou
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In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.
– George Antheil
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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.
– Robert Anthony
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
– Diane Arbus
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
– Hannah Arendt
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Change in all things is sweet.
– Aristotle
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering change that threatens to engulf him.
– Owen Arthur
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At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
– Beatrice Arthur
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
– Nancy Astor
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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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.
– Abdallah II
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If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.
– Charles Francis Adams
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The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules.
– Thomas Addison
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
– Freda Adler
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Even God cannot change the past.
– Agathon
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
– Dante Alighieri
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Religions change, but beer and wine remain.
– Harvey Allen
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An award does not change the quality of a book. I'm acutely aware of the deficiencies in all of my work.
– Charles Van Allsburg
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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
– Lisa Alther
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I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
– Alejandro Amenabar
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
– Richard Bach
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
– Richard Bach
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
– James A. Baldwin
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You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
– Alec Baldwin
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My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.
– Antonio Banderas
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The most useless are those who never change through the years.
– James M. Barrie
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In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.
– Dave Barry
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
– Bruce Barton
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
– Bernard Baruch
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
– Simone de Beauvoir
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
– Saul Bellow
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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
– Tony Benn
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
– Arnold Bennett
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As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
– George Benson
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
– Yogi Berra
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
– Ambrose Bierce
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
– Josh Billings
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The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
– Hugo Black
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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
– Tony Blair
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I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space. And maybe that'll mean that we multiply and just destroy another planet. But you know what? That's mankind. Get used to it. We're not going to change.
– Jolene Blalock
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Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
– Bill Blass
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Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed? Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother? Wasn't there any change?
– Erma Bombeck
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
– Christopher Bond
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Parochialism is one of the CIA's biggest problems. These career CIA officers, while having valuable experience, also carry the baggage of being resistant to change. The status quo may be comfortable to them, but it is dangerous to the country.
– Christopher Bond
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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
– Bono
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
– Bono
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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
– George Boole
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The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
– Barbara Boxer
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Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.
– Allen Boyd
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I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.
– Paul Bremer
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But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.
– Robert Bridges
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So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.
– Robert Bridges
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
– Joseph Brodsky
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
– Tom Brokaw
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
– Phillip Brooks
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When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
– William Wells Brown
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
– Dan Brown
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I don't write hard SF - that is, technology-driven science fiction. I don't read this stuff, either. I like to read, and to write, SF about people, the consequences of technological and social change on individuals or groups of individuals. Fantasy and hard SF aren't about these things.
– Eric Brown
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Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
– Jerry Brown
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If someone were to prove to me-right this minute-that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
– Luis Bunuel
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
– Edmund Burke
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
– Edmund Burke
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Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
– Richard Burr
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
– William S. Burroughs
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