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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation.
Change | Conservation | Means |
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
It is as ordinary to see a man change his tastes as it is extraordinary to see him change his inclinations.
If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear and hope will forward it; and they who persist in opposing this mighty current will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be so much resolute and firm as perverse and obstinate.
It is as common for men to change their taste as it is uncommon for them to change their inclination.
Change | Inclination | Men | Taste |
Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; It should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Change | Children | Education | Future | Learning | Parents | People | Society | Time | Will | World |
There is no part of you that is indefinable and changeless, that does not get lost or change with age, disease, or circumstances.
Age | Change | Circumstances | Disease |
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Cause | Change | Revolution | Think |
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
We won't believe the world can change until we experience ourselves changing. There's only one way to change yourself: risk... We have to risk being wrong, and we have to risk being lonely.
Change | Experience | Risk | World | Wrong |