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For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will ve replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances. ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

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At the beginning of the day, when you're doing a show like this, you want to entertain and you want people to have a really fun time...but at the end of the day you want them to walk out feeling changed and taking something more away from it...and it's really kind of rare that you get to do that all in the same night. ↗

— John Gallagher

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So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. ↗

— Charles Lyell

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[A]ll government was instituted for the good of the people, and... when it no longer answers this end, and they are in danger of slavery, or great oppression, they have a right to change it. ↗

— James Iredell

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model of reality that makes the existing model obsolete. ↗

— Buckminster Fuller

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From "The Book That Changed My Life": -"But your journey is never over until you return from it to share with society what you have learned." ~ Robert Ballard -"We never anticipate being changed by what we read. Such an experience cannot be planned for." ~ Brother Christopher ↗

— Robert D. Ballard

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Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win. ↗

— Linda Spangle

#weight-loss #change

Some people will never change. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#never #people #some #some people #will

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem. ↗

— John Peers

#nature #problem #solution

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another. ↗

— Lois Lowry

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