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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

People change and forget to tell each other.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Perfection is immutable, but for things imperfect, to change is the way to perfect them. - Constancy without knowledge cannot be always good; and in things ill, it is not virtue but an absolute vice.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. See quote detail

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.


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