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" If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? "

W. Somerset Maugham

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" I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile... Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion. "

" It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. "

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" Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better. "

" If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses. "

" Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. "

" I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. "

" I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. "

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" Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. "

Laurence Sterne

" Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. "

" Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change. "

" Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time. "

" The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture. "

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" We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order. "

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" Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake. "

" The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy. "

" Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. "

" I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. "

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" Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. "

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" Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure. "

" I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies. "

" 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. "

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" After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change. "

" The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. "

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

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" Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world. "