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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

Eric Lustbader

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

E. Joseph Crossman

Miracles You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...

Hugh Elliott

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Gertrude Stein

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

Peter Borden

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Much sooner than we think, comes the end! Science is the only master who can change this.

Mehmet Murat ildan

My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.

Horace Binney

Neo I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

Matrix, The

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

Author Unknown

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Al Kersha

No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!

Mehmet Murat ildan

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.

Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Kathleen Norris

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change...

Barack Obama

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