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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

- E. Joseph Cossman

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

- Bible

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

- Robbins, Anthony

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

- Amy Tan

Those who die in the fear of God and in the faith of Christ do not really taste death; to them there is no death, but only a change of place, a change of state; they pass at once into some new life, with all their powers, all their feelings, unchanged; still the same living, thinking, active beings which they were here on earth. I say active. Rest they may, rest they will, if they need rest. But what is true rest? Not idleness, but peace of mind.

- Water of Life Sermons. 1862.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

- Dante Alighieri

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

- Doug Larson

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

- Sikes, Rex Steven

Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.

- Chandler, Raymond

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The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

- Paul McCartney

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Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

- Tesla, Nikola

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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

- Picasso, Pablo

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Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

- Epictetus

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

- Hardy, Thomas

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

- Greene, Graham

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

- Maslow, Abraham H.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

- Churchill, Winston

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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

- Eric Hoffer

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

- Sheehy, Gail

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

- Christina Baldwin