OpEdNews - Page 9 of Article: Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?

Change is the only evidence of life.
Evelyn Waugh

All the changes taking place in medicine today are consumer driven.
Andrew Weil

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major avances in civilization are processes which all but wrech the societies in which they occur...
Alfred North Whitehead

Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.
Alfred North Whitehead

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Woodrow Wilson

Even god cannot change the past.
Agathon, (446-401 BC)

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle (384-322 BC)

CHANGE, PERMANENCE
Saint Augustine 354 430
Things that are not immutable are not at all.
Saint Augustine

CURIOSITY, IMAGINATION, IMAGERY, VISUALIZATION, RESEARCH
"God has framed the mind like a glass, capable of the image of the universe, and desirous to receive it as the eye to receive the light; and thus it is not only pleased with the variety and vicissitudes of things, but also endeavors to find out the laws they observe in their changes and alterations. And if such be the extent of the mind, there is no danger of filling it with any quantity of knowledge."
Bacon, Francis; Advancement of Learning, 1605

CHANGE, INNOVATION
He that will not apply new remedies , must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Bacon Essays; Of Innovation

We must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it.
James Baldwin - American author

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker

ACTION, CHANGE
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Wizard of Oz movie (adapted from L. Frank Baum's series of books)

Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them?
Ashleigh Brilliant
UC Berkeley 'street' philosopher

"...the magnitude of change we sense around the world compels us to look within ourselves and to God to forge a rare alloy of courage and restraint.
George HW Bush, "7/10/89

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

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