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ان الناس لاتعرف ان كتابا واحدا كفيل بان يغير مجرى حياة الانسان. ↗

— Malcolm X

#change #malcolm-x #reading #wisdom #change

What happened to goodbye? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#missing-someone #sad-but-true #unexpected-changes #change

I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling alittle different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

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They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. ↗

— John Milton

#epic-poem #john #milton #paradise-lost #satan

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves. ↗

— Charles Yu

#change #chronodiegetic-manipulation #good-news #life #the-universe

Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#business

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#always #assistance #been #concept #driven

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#hundred #playwrights #should #three #years

that was bad; i shouldn't have done that to prevent you from entering a catatonic state i am going to maintain a calm facial expression with crinkly eyes and an overall friendly demeanor i believe in a human being that is not upset i believe if you are working i should not be insane or upset--why am i ever insane or upset and not working? i vacuumed the entire house this morning i cleaned the kitchen and the computer room and i made you a meat helmet with computer paper the opportunity for change exists in each moment, all moments are alone and separate from other moments, and there are a limited number of moments and the idea of change is a delusion of positive or negative thinking your hands are covering your face and your body moves like a statue when i try to manipulate an appendage if i could just get you to cry tears of joy one more time ↗

— Tao Lin

#impermanence #indifferent-universe #meat-helmet #productivity #sadness

I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn’t learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God’s injunction and Adam’s loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. “Hurry,” they say, “he’ll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime. ↗

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

#library #reading #change