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" By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly. "

James Gunn

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Future

Problems

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" I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change. "

" The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. "

" You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior. "

" Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. "

" Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen - while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West. "

" What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. "

" Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. "

" I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place. "

" Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. "

" We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society. "

" A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.' "

" Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change

Work

Struggle

" Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. "

" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "

" Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. "

" Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action. "

" All great change in America begins at the dinner table. "

" Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

Pain

Change

Always

" I feel I'm most beautiful when I have less makeup on and I'm at home with people surrounding me that support me, and I know they will never judge me or try to change me. "

" I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. "

" I've been making movies a long time. I'm a professional at it. I'm not a professional at making soundtracks - that's not my job. My job is to put the right songs in the movie so the movie works the best it possibly can. "

" Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song. "

" I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward. "

" I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives. "

" As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For 'Million Dollar Baby,' I had no facial hair. For 'Men in Black 3,' I had no facial hair but did wear a wig. "

" The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community. "

" All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self. "

" I crossed paths with a horse that happened to change my life. That horse is Game On Dude, and what a horse! He's a soldier. Together we traveled the world. We won the Santa Anita Big Cap, Goodwood, almost won the Breeder's Cup Classic; we won the San Antonio, Hollywood Gold Cup and the Californian. "

" Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body. "

Jean Nidetch

Change

Personality

" The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough. "