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Quote by Salman Rushdie
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservativ

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie

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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie

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Change
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Ive never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. – Salman Rushdie

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Health
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It is not strange… to mistake change for progress. – Millard Fillmore

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Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. – Lynn Hall

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Change

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. – Blaise Pascal

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Change

I dont think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. Its just maturity. Ive become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence. – Ricky Williams

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. – Christopher Reeve

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Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as youve all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale – way cool. – Spider Robinson

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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Scottish Proverb

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