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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

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Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

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