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Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. ↗

— Julian Barbour

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I love taking chances. ↗

— Wayne Newton

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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

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I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky. ↗

— Mischa Barton

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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. ↗

— Martha Beck

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For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

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When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

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This is the life making miracle that completes us. Nothing is more challenging or rewarding than this union. Here is humanity in all its glory and devastation. This is that which makes and breaks nations. And so the greatest saints are those heroic people that pour themselves into each and change the world. These are the lovers that light up the earth. Children smile, adults believe and God gives the planet another day of sun light. ↗

— Guillermo Escalona

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