"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."

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"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."

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"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."

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"For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?"

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"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality."

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"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

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"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."

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"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."

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"Happiness is the longing for repetition."

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"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."

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"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end."

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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

John Wooden, American Coach

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"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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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., American Leader

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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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"Change in all things is sweet."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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