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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.
– Ben Kingsley
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
– Donald Knuth
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As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
– Ted Kulongoski
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Basic human principles don't change, but demographics and other circumstances do, and so should our responses to them.
– Jon Kyl
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It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.
– Paul Kagame
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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
– Kenneth Kaunda
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I truly believe that if we put the strength of our hearts and minds together that we can change prejudice, and that my generation of kids can grow up appreciating the glorious rainbow of diversity.
– Sol Kelley-Jones
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You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.
– Marjorie Kellogg
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STALE is basically a weekly: most articles will appear for a week. Elements will change constantly. You will lose track a lot. You may be reading an article one day only to find that the end has been removed while you were reading the beginning.
– Michael Kindling
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The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
– John P. Kotter
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Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.
– Andy Law
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Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
– Senator Patrick Leahy
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
– Harper Lee
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
– Bill Lee
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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
– John Lennon
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President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.
– Jay Leno
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By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.
– John Leo
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
– Max Lerner
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I understand why so many Americans were angry when I was first discovered in Afghanistan. I realize many still are, but I hope in time that feeling will change.
– John Walker Lindh
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
– Walter Lippmann
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
– James Russell Lowell
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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
– Jaron Lanier
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We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?
– Robert Lanza
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I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
– Jennifer Jason Leigh
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He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.
– Daniel De Leon
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To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.
– George B. Leonard
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The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
– Edward Levi
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You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.
– Michael Levy
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
– Flora Lewis
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Our only security is our ability to change.
– John Lilly
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
– Haniel Long
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You change your life by changing your heart.
– Max Lucado
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We've found that our lives are beginning to change, that the press, for instance, has taken an interest in us and our lives.
– Matt Lucas
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.
– Connie Mack
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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
– Harold MacMillan
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All you have to do is try not to change. But I wouldn't know how not to be myself.
– Dan Marino
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
– Dan Marino
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We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.
– Dan Marino
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
– Karl Marx
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The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star.
– Karl Marx
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Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.
– Mary McAleese
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Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.
– Mitch McConnell
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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.
– Mitch McConnell
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
– Bryant H. McGill
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
– Aimee Semple McPherson
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When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
– Bernard Meltzer
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I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.
– Debra Messing
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Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
– Alice Meynell
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Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.
– Luis Miguel
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
– Barbara Mikulski
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Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.
– Brian Molko
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I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.
– Dominic Monaghan
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Tolerate, change, or be grateful.
– Rickie Moore
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Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.
– Charles Moore
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
– Charles Morgan
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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
– Iris Murdoch
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I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
– Rupert Murdoch
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I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
– Wendie Malick
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A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.
– Paule Marshall
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One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problems, can change our whole outlook on the work.
– Elton Mayo
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Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.
– David C. McClelland
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We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
– Rick Mercer
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Girls are able to reach their potential now. Once they are out of the sport, they can still continue in the business world of sports. The whole role of the female is changing. Times do change, but we still have to work through adversity and learn to live with the decisions we make.
– Debbie Meyer
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Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
– Bode Miller
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
– Czeslaw Milosz
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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
– Jessica Mitford
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
– Samantha Morton
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Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
– Joyce A. Myers
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We must prepare young people for a brain-centered economy whose one constant is rapid change. The predominant classroom model a single teacher lecturing to 20, 30, or even more students reflects the production-line model of the Industrial Age, not the technological demands of our Information Age.
– Janet Napolitano
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Now I must arrive at the time of my change from scientific rationality of thinking into the delusional thinking characteristic of persons... But I will not really attempt to describe this long period of time but rather avoid embarrassment by simply omitting to give the details of truly personal type.
– John Nash
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We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
– Ben Nelson
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
– John Henry Cardinal Newman
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A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
– Earl Nightingale
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
– Susanne Curchod Necker
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
– Harold Nicholas
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We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.
– Grover Norquist
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Do me a favor. The next time there is a marvelous, change-the-world invention that will increase efficiency, extend our reach, and give us new effectiveness, keep the news to yourself.
– Sue O'Brien
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I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
– Rosie O'Donnell
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There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
– Ann Oakley
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The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.
– Tony Oliva
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
– Herbert Otto
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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
– Bill Owens
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I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
– Buck Owens
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
– Camille Paglia
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Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
– George E. Pataki
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
– Pope John Paul II
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
– Pope Paul VI
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
– Octavio Paz
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Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
– John Pearson
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
– M. Scott Peck
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
– Alan Perlis
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
– Alan Perlis
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To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
– Fred Perry
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