#hang

Understanding myself should not be confused with changing myself ↗

— Milton Bevington

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Concentrated power is bad" "(name of chapter) ↗

— William J Federer

#power #change

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. ↗

— Erik Larson

#nonfiction #st-louis #change

A society that is flexible and can change its rules is much healthier than one that cannot! ↗

— Ken Kolsbun

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Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change... Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewhere? ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#culture #power #society #systems #text

Today you are you, Which makes you better to be with around. Don't change anything about yourself....I think you're perfect just the way you are. ↗

— Jane Michelle Park

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Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As the light of the satellite fell on my face my mind cleared, and I knew what was to be done. ("Absolute Evil") ↗

— Julian Hawthorne

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Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change. ↗

— Victor Pelevin

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My accent is of African ancestry and so is my origin and I have no intention to change any of it. Therefore nobody should expect me to fraudulently behave as if I was anything else. ↗

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

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researchers discovered that people who have just consumed caffeinated drinks were more likely to be swayed by arguments about various controversial topics.55 In short, good evidence that there really is no such thing as a free lunch or an innocent cup of coffee. ↗

— Richard Wiseman

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