Quotes 601 till 620 of 984.
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38 -
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
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Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
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Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
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