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Change
«The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.»
«The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Change,
Secrets
| Keywords:
causes, changed, confusion, eighties, eighty, great year, Old Course, old people, seventies, seventy
«The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Change,
Constitution,
Enemies,
Freedom,
Friends,
Liberty,
Revolution,
Speech,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
deadliest, framer, Framers, free speech
«The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it»
«The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Change,
Philosophy,
World
| Keywords:
interpreted, philosophers, the point, various
«The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Change,
Ideas,
Law and lawyers,
Security
| Keywords:
adapting, and elsewhere, current, elsewhere, misguide, misguided, outlived, static, The Search, usefulness
«The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Birthday,
Change
| Keywords:
aged, middle-aged, middle, middles, Middle way, suspect, young
«The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Change,
Generations,
Revolution
| Keywords:
aspects, attitudes, outer, revolution, The Discovery