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• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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• I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.

  Isabel Allende

  Optimistic, Grandchildren, Thinking

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• I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates that we can walk with our eyes wide open straight into sheer destruction if there is a profit on the way-and that seems to me to be what we are doing now. I have no great expectation that human cussedness will somehow be quickly modified and turned into generosity or that humanity's care of the earth will improve much. But I do go around planting trees on the campus.

  Joseph Sittler

  Believe, Eye, Generosity

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• Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, Opportunity, Each Day

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.96, Penguin

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• If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Done, Ifs

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• Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Our World, Voice

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Opportunity, Men, Sometimes

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• I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

  Huey Newton

  Thinking, Goes On, Earth

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

  Isaac Newton

  Change, Impact, Uniforms

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• If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Leadership, Real

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• Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

  Prince Philip

  Change, Challenges, Doe

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• Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook of their diversity numbers—and a pledge to improve these—are the most recent victories. The Boys Club is under fire and is trying to reform itself. Women are achieving success and helping each other. Advancing technologies are leveling the playing field. Women are in the catbird seat for the new era of exponential innovation. This is the time to inspire and motivate—and that is what Innovating Women will surely do.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Boys, Technology, Fire

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• Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Generosity, Doe

  "Why We Are All Artists: Seth Godin in Conversation – Part 1". Interview with Mary Jaksch, writetodone.com.

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• We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Asking

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• she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.264, 谷月社

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• The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Change, Believe

  "Enlightened Activism" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2015.

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• If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

  James M. Barrie

  Change, Growing Up, Mean

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

  Richard Marcinko

  Change, Hurt, Confused

  Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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• God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Perfect, Christianity

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17”, p.145, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Failure

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• Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Uplifting, Creativity, Recovery

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• Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is.
  Just go on becoming more and more aware
  you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension.
  It will bring great fulfilment

  Rajneesh

  Life Changing, Meditation, Goes On

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• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Men, Overwhelmed

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• In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Mean, People, Don't Change

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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