11,582 Quotes About Change

  • Author Kory Stamper
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    Etymological fallacy is the worst sort of pedantry: a meaningless personal opinion trying to dress itself up as concern for preserving historical principles. It misses that language change itself is a historical principle: a language that doesn't change is a dead language

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  • Author Glenda Dugar
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    I've realized that nothing is constant but change, and I feel that with my life, you have to be ready to proceed in any direction. Take a chance and make a decision. Whichever direction you choose to take, you must do it to the best of your ability, because people appreciate that; and it can take you far.

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  • Author Aditi Khorana
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    Some things are fixed, others are changeable. You can’t change what’s fixed or fix what’s changeable. That’s what my mother always said.

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  • Author Rachel Cusk
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    He often caught himself living in the mistaken belief that transformation was the same thing as progress. Things could look very different while remain the same: time could seem to have altered everything, without changing the thing that needed to change.

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