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What does not change is the will to change
(Charles Olson (1910-1970), U.S. poet. The Kingfishers (l. 1). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
(Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, writer. Quoted in New York Times (July 5, 1954).)
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They change, and we, who pass like foam,
Like dust blown through the streets of Rome,
Change ever, too; we have no home,
(John Masefield (1878-1967), British poet. The Passing Strange (l. 61-63). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
(Max Lerner (b. 1902), U.S. author, columnist. repr. in The Unfinished Country, pt. 1 (1959). "Fifty," New York Post (December 18, 1952).)
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
(Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by Lorenzo O'Rourke. "Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907).)
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When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
(Lucius Cary Falkland, 2nd Viscount (1610-1643), British statesman, soldier, patron. speech, Nov. 22, 1641, to the House of Commons. "A Speech Concerning Episcopacy," Discourses on the Infallibility of the Church of Rome (1660).)
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Things do not change; we change.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 361, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.
(Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Lucy (Irene Dunne), The Awful Truth, after witnessing the specialty act of nightclub performer Dixie Bell Lee—ne Toots Binswanger (Joyce Compton) (1937).)
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Change alone is unchanging.
(Heraclitus (c. 535-c. 475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Herakleitos and Diogenes, pt. 1, fragment 23, trans. by Guy Davenport (1976).)
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Human-nature will not change.
(Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. response to a serenade, Nov. 10, 1864. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 8, p. 101, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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