"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

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"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

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"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."

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"Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent."

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"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."

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"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."

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"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."

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"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."

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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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