Great Change Quotes - Page 5

• The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

  Paul Keating

  Passion, Belief, Process

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

  David Brainerd

  Blessed, Hands, Views

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.391

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• A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hands, Peaceful, Tasks

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

  Marcel Proust

  History, Doe, Has Beens

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.851, Delphi Classics

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• Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Matter, Fortune

  "The Civil War". Book by Julius Caesar translated by Jane P. Gardner (Book III, Chapter 68), 47 BC.

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