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Quote by Joseph Addison
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. – Joseph Addison

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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. – John Podhoretz

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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. – Karl Marx

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News reports dont change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. – Martin Scorsese

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