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This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions. ↗


— Olli Jalonen


#government #politics #change

In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of change. The white man takes such things as words and literatures for granted, as indeed he must, for nothing in his world is so commonplace. On every side of him there are words by the millions, an unending succession of pamphlets and papers, letters and books, bills and bulletins, commentaries and conversations. He has diluted and multiplied the Word, and words have begun to close in on him. He is sated and insensitive; his regard for language -- for the Word itself -- as an instrument of creation has diminished nearly to the point of no return. It may be that he will perish by the Word. ↗


— N. Scott Momaday


#creativity #language #modernity #change

In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench... ↗


— Bernice L. McFadden


#change

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep. ↗


— Arnold Bennett


#change

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die. ↗


— W.H. Auden


#fear #change

You might not be able to change your situation but prayer can. ↗


— Jerry Kinard


#change

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average ↗


— Stephen Hawking


#forecasting #global-warming #weather #change

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going. ↗


— Zelda Fitzgerald


#travel #change

‎A change of work is the best rest. ↗


— Arthur Conan Doyle


#work-is-worship #change

...before there can be change there must be discontent. ↗


— Paul Bowles


#discontent #change






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