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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's; she changes it more often.

Roughly, for me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects; to them it is a matter of indifference if these objects are replaced by others, provided that the relations do not change. Matter does not engage their attention, they are interested in form alone.

Henri Poincaré

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Carter G. Woodson

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

Thomas Robert Malthus

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

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.