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    The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.

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Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder.

Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder.

by Caroline Schoeder Found in: Change Quotes,
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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've read more

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

by Barack Obama Found in: Change Quotes,
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to read more

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.

by Jessamyn West Found in: Change Quotes,
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Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Change Quotes,
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

by Harry Emerson Fosdick Found in: Change Quotes,
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs read more

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

by Henry G. Miller Found in: Change Quotes,
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The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or read more

The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

by C.s. Lewis Found in: Change Quotes,
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered read more

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

by Carl T. Rowan Found in: Change Quotes,
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