"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

Clark, Karen Kaiser on change
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"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

Confucius on change
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"You do not notice changes in what is always before you."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on change
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Darrow, Clarence on change
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"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind."

Einstein, Albert on change
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"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."

Glasgow, Ellen on change
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"Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed."

Heraclitus on change
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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

Hoffer, Eric on change
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."

Shaw, George Bernard on population
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"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet."

Unknown, Source on action
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on dogs
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deception
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"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deceit
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

Rockefeller, John D. on goals
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"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

Rockefeller, John D. on happiness   

"Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be."

Unknown, Source on worth
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"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."

Rockefeller, John D. on opportunity   

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness
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"Greatest fools are the most often satisfied."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fools and foolishness
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"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?"

Freehill, Maurice on fools and foolishness
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"There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him."

Gabirol, Ibn on fools and foolishness
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Frost, Robert on fools and foolishness
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Acton, Lord on power
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"Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

King, Stephen on enemies
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"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk."

King, Stephen on writers and writing
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"Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work."

Schwartz, Bob on diets and dieting   

"Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet."

Beckett, Samuel on diets and dieting
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"When a man has died, he wants you to know about it."

King, Stephen on death   

"Dieters -- People that are thick and tired of it"

Unknown, Source on diets and dieting
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"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."

Feiffer, Jules on adolescence
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"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

Augustine, St. on miracles
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Darrow, Clarence on parents and parenting
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."

Abrams, Creighton on communication
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