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No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions. -- Subhas Chandra Bose
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. -- Thomas Friedman
The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do. -- Richelle Mead
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work. -- Noam Chomsky
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do. -- Richelle Mead
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. -- Will Durant
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. -- Mikko Hypponen
Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. -- Dave Snowden
God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same. -- Iris Murdoch
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. -- David Weinberger
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. -- Hilary Mantel
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. -- Eugene V. Debs
The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas. -- Leo Strauss
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. -- Alfred de Vigny
I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way. -- Steven Spielberg
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. -- James A. Garfield
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. -- Anselm Kiefer
The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do. -- Richelle Mead
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime. -- Sam Abell
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. -- Jonathan Chait
We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. -- Gretel Ehrlich
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. -- Douglas Coupland
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. -- Johan Huizinga
There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist. -- Thomas Hoving
Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art. -- Orlan
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley
We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. -- Ira Sachs
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. -- Stephen Kinzer
Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property -- John Moody
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. -- John Moody
Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same. -- Shannon L. Alder
We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

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