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Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

Paul Cezanne

Artist · French · 1839 – 1906

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Christopher Dodd

Politician · American · b. 1944

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Journalist · American · 1890 – 1998

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

Vinoba Bhave

Educator · Indian · 1895 – 1982

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Katherine Mansfield

Author · New Zealander · 1888 – 1923

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

Kevin Kelly

Editor · American

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

J. B. Priestley

Writer · British · 1894 – 1984

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Martin Scorsese

Director · American · b. 1942

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

Philosopher · American · 1842 – 1910

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Philosopher · Roman

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Politician · American · 1900 – 1965

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Milan Kundera

Writer · Czechoslovakian · b. 1929

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

Steve Forbes

Businessman · American · b. 1947

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economist · American · 1908 – 2006

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer

Psychologist · American · b. 1940

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

Howard Dean

Politician · American · b. 1948

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Lawrence Lessig

Educator · American · b. 1961

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Mary Wesley

Novelist · British · 1912 – 2002

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

Angela Merkel

Statesman · German · b. 1954

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

Cathy Guisewite

Cartoonist · American · b. 1950

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

Sherrod Brown

Politician · American · b. 1952

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Bernard Meltzer

Lawyer · American · 1916 – 1998

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

Novelist · English · 1867 – 1931

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Eric Sevareid

Journalist · American · 1912 – 1992

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

William Weld

Politician · American · b. 1945

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Charles Eames

Designer · American · 1907 – 1978

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

John Moody

Businessman · American

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock

Director · English · 1899 – 1980

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

Author · American · 1925 – 1964

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

Paul Ryan

Politician · American · b. 1970

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

Janet Napolitano

Politician · American · b. 1957

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Peter Marshall

Clergyman · Scottish · 1902 – 1949

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Herbert Hoover

President · American · 1874 – 1964

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Philosopher · Chinese

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Ellen Goodman

Journalist · American · b. 1948

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Walter Lippmann

Journalist · American · 1889 – 1974

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Henry A. Wallace

Vice President · American · 1888 – 1965

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

Robert Kennedy

Politician · American · 1925 – 1968

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Poet · French · 1821 – 1867

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Brian Tracy

Author · American

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher · Danish · 1813 – 1855

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Frank Moore Colby

Educator · American

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet · American · 1807 – 1882

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Garrett Hardin

Environmentalist · American · 1915 – 2003

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

Poet · American · 1819 – 1892

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Writer · Italian · 1469 – 1527

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Josiah Strong

Clergyman · American

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