Quotes with change-ringing

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  • Ben Vereen Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • George Meredith Speech is the small change of silence.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Jean Paul Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Samuel Johnson Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Taste may change, but inclination never.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Billy Bragg That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Lisa Alther That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
    Lisa Alther
    American author and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Cab Calloway That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Maxwell Maltz The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ezra Pound The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Gerda Lerner The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.
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  • Charles Morgan The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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