#hang

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#change #contempt #continue #medicare #mislead

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#common #confers #currency #drawn #exchange

The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many. ↗

— David McCullough

#change

It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #science #change

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ↗

— William Seward

#foolishness #opinions #purpose #change

I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time. ↗

— Ray Brown

#changing #constantly #couple #else #go

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#being #boy #brought #change #committed

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#books #changed #early #i #lot

If you don’t feel like changing and don’t have the motivation to do it for you then there’s not a single diet or pill that will work. ↗

— Emma James

#rebel-diet #change

I wanted to change the world, now I hope the world doesn't change me. ↗

— Ray Mileur

#change