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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. ↗

— William Allen White

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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. ↗

— William Glasser

#attitudes #behavior #start #want #you

This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose #vampire-academy #change

You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#destiny #change

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#apprehension #deep #earliest #fears #glimpse

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#goals #life #sacrifice #change

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#coded #error #make #mistakes

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 a little 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

#lewis-carroll #change

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#ideas #reading #words #change

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#influence #psychology #change