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The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

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In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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I dote on his very absence.

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

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Self-trust is the essence of heroism

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