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" Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong. "

N. R. Narayana Murthy

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" I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high. "

" If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed. "

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" My own belief is that rather than getting involved in trying to change the reality of social-political things, creators can be involved in and express in different ways and be meaningful in different ways, so for me, it's important to leave messages to people of the future and to be engaged with the people now. "

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" Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. "

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" Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. "

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" You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know. "

" I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway. "

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" Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change. "

" We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. "

" 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. "

" I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear. "

" Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step. "

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" Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. "

" Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people. "

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