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Change

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. – Bono

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. – Ambrose Bierce

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. – Horace

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. – Henry Rollins

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

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. – Mao Zedong

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. – Tony Campolo

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. – Friedrich Schiller

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. – Steven Biko

Taste may change, but inclination never. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. – Benjamin Disraeli

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. – John Steinbeck

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. – Mason Cooley

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. – Harvey Fierstein

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. – Will Durant

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. – Morihei Ueshiba