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If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#girl-power #change

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#consists #meaning #thing #value

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change. ↗

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

#human-experience #listening #silence #wisdom #change

If you prefer, I'll be pure raging meat, or if you prefer, as the sky changes tone, I'll be absolutely tender, not a man, but a cloud in trousers! ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#russian-poetry #change

I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be changed. I didn't want this life. They're were only so many times I could hear that I should never have been born, before I wished it to be true. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#change

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#child #faith #parental-love #parenthood #parents

I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man’s good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did. ↗

— William Faulkner

#good #life #change

True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it. ↗

— Chan Kilgore

#evangelism #salvation #change

If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#change #change-your-life #convert #repentance #richelle

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#computers #day #eat #getting #healthier