“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”
— Primo Levi
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“People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.”
— Eleanor Clift
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“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.”
— Peter Schuyler
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“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.”
— Bono
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“Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.”
— James Buchan
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“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
— Ossie Davis
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“The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.”
— Jim DeMint
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“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
— Havelock Ellis
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