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" After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists. "

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" If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow. "

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" The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. "

" Bravery is the engine of change. "

" I've always been the type that, every few months, I'm like, 'Let's change the haircut one more time.' "

Coco Rocha

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" The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. "

" It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid. "

" All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new. "

" 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. "

" I grew up always thinking that fighting for justice was our obligation, whether that's giving your voice to something, serving as a verbal advocate for someone, or physically being in spaces or occupying space to make and create change. "

" We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. "

" We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us. "

" Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. "

" In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. "

" Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. "

" Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. "

" The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations. "

" I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose. "

" It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons. "

" The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away. "

Noam Chomsky

Welcome

Just

" I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another. "

Frank Ocean

" Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. "

" A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. "

" The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. "

" The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change. "

" Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. "

" What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it. "

" If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. "

" If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. "

" Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy. "

Christine Todd Whitman

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" I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to climate change. They're fashionable, everybody loves them, the Prius is selling well, but so are Gucci bags. But they don't impact the way the world carries stuff. You know it's a fashion statement. "