OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Saint Francis of Assisi

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
Lady Nancy Astor

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Sir Francis Bacon

CONSERVATISM, CHANGE, BELIEFS, PARADIGMS
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invluable at first and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.
James Arthur Baldwin

When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Claude Bernard

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Richard Nelson Bolles

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
Hal Borland

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Bovee

CHANGE, GROWTH, ON THE ROAD
I ain't what I'm gonna be.
I ain't what I wanna be.
But thank God, I ain't what I was.
Les Brown

PLANNING, HISTORY, CHANGE, PAST
"You can never plan the future by the past."
Burke, Edmund, Letter to member of national Assembly

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter, in his 1-20-1977 inaugural address, quoting his high school teacher Julia Coleman

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