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Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?

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EXCESS, SURFEIT, SATIETY, SENSATION SEEKING
"With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe,
And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades below."
Byron: Child Harold, Canto 1, st. 6

CHANGE, YINYANG, DEATH, HIBERNATE
So when some dear joy loses
Its beauteous summer glow,
Think how the roots of roses
Are kept alive in the snow."
Alice Cary (1820 1871

Time is a changeable ally.
Winston Churchill, Broadcast, 1940

VICTORY, WINNING
The natural goal of every single plan of campaign is the point at which the offensive changes into the defensive. To go beyond this goal is more than simply a useless expenditure of power, yielding no further result; it is a ruinous one which causes reactions, and these reactions, according to universal experience, have always disproportionate effects.
Karl Von Clausewitz 1780 1831

COPING, STRESS, STABILITY, SINEWAVE, CHANGE
"Be not elated by fortune, be not depressed by adversity."
Cleobulus

CHANGE
We live in a world where what you earn depends on what you can learn, where the average 18 year old will change jobs eight times in a lifetime, and where none of us can promise any of you that what you do for a living is absolutely safe from now on.
Bill Clinton, 1992 2nd presidential debate

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
Confucius

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are usually right.
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) - American socialist, activist, unionist, 9-12-1918, addressing jury at his sedition trial

In a progressive country change is constant, change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli
- from a speech on the Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, October 29, 1867,

Change starts when someone sees the next step.
William Drayton

CHANGE
"Change is the nursery of music, joy, life and Eternity."
Donne, John ,1572 1631/hl

IDEAS, CHANGE
Men scorn what they don't understand.
Sir Arthur COnan DOyle 1859 193 The sign of Four

CHANGE, CONVERSION
If the cask is to hold the wine, its water must first be poured out.
Meister Eckhart

ACTION
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marion Wright Edelman

VARIETY
"Gladly we would Anchor, but the anchorage is quicksand.
...Our love of the Real draws us to Permanence, but health of body consists in circulation, and Sanity of mind in variety or facility of association. We need change of objects. Dedication to one thought is quickly odious."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals entry, 1840

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