January 8, 2008 at 16:35:16

Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?

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"It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress."
Millard Fillmore

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life."
Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

"He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."
Benjamin Franklin

The moreal world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
Sir James Frazer

"Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Robert Lee Frost

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
Andre Gide

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Learned Hand

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
Sydney J. Harris

"People change and forget to tell each other."
Lillian Hellman

"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic."
Hazel Henderson

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