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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. -- Marge Piercy
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. -- David Ben-Gurion
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. -- Czeslaw Milosz
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. -- Boris Becker
I never thought my cotton gin would change history. -- Eli Whitney
Your requests change history because your prayers change God! -- Max Lucado
We can't change history, but we can create the future. -- Erwin McManus
The easiest way of change history is to become a historian. -- Jerry Falwell
Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history. -- Rick Riordan
One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend. -- George Tenet
I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own. -- Danny Lyon
What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power! -- Bryant McGill
Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future. -- Lee Ezell
You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself. -- Sarah Gadon
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote. -- Agnes Varda
If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer. -- Mark Batterson
America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful. "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me? -- Kiera Cass
Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself. -- Jennifer Donnelly
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. -- Pete Seeger
We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing. -- Richard Bach
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If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world -- Diego Maradona
If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world. -- Diego Maradona
You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can...how do you moderns say it...think outside the cup. -- Rick Riordan
I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important. -- Jack Ma
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet. -- Mahmoud Darwish
History is always changing. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
History is like a constantly changing tree. -- David Irving
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. -- Mikko Hypponen
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. -- Ralph Abernathy
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history. -- Jim Leach
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. -- Stephen Covey
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. -- Hilary Mantel
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. -- Thomas Friedman
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. -- Eugene V. Debs
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. -- Susan Sontag
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. -- Michel Houellebecq
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
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. -- Dalai Lama
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations. -- Lafcadio Hearn
A lot of things in history change over time. -- Jeb Bush
What is history, indeed, but a record of change? -- Jawaharlal Nehru
History is change happening one person at a time. -- Matt Damon
No great leader in history fought to prevent change. -- John C. Maxwell
We're going to have to change our traditions, our history -- Michelle Obama
History tends to change people who think they're changing it. -- Terry Pratchett
Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history -- Amos Bronson Alcott
No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions. -- Subhas Chandra Bose
In order to be written into History; one must first change it. -- Darrius Garrett
No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. -- Hermann Graf Keyserling
Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world. -- Paul Mooney
History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. -- Jeanne C. Stein
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history. -- Deepak Chopra
Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are. -- Sukarno
A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history. -- Mahatma Gandhi
They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it. -- Rush Limbaugh
But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history. -- Sally Gardner
An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history. -- Susan Abulhawa
Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter. -- Carrie Fisher
We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. -- Joan Wallach Scott
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. -- Rollo May
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston. -- Tom Selleck
It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history. -- Ron Paul
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Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism -- Frank Knight
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention. -- Michel de Montaigne
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth -- Desmond Tutu
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism. -- David Harvey
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did. -- Malala Yousafzai
Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible -- Monique Wittig
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time. -- Gordon S. Wood
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand. -- Riane Eisler
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. -- Frederik Pohl
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger
Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history. -- Daniel Nayeri
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status -- Robert Trivers
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume. -- George Eliot
You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events. -- Amy Chan
Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives. -- Teresa Mummert
We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change. -- Dan Rather
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs. -- Felix Frankfurter
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. -- Audre Lorde
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural. -- Josephine Baker
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton. -- Gwen Ifill
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history -- Brian Tracy
It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together. -- Sylvia Earle
Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change. -- Steve Maraboli
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history. -- Wade Davis
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. -- Edward Witten
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency. -- Charlton Heston
Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects. -- Mark Ruffalo
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology. -- Barack Obama
Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor. -- Anita Roddick
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. -- R. D. Laing
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. -- Antonia Fraser
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. -- Sonia Johnson
It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security. -- Paul Kagame
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. -- Frank Luntz
History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom. -- Paulo Coelho
The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history. -- Thomas C. Oden
When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines. -- Seth Berkley
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. -- Erica Jong
Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us. -- Mary E. Pearson
When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right. -- Rebecca McKinsey
I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them. -- E. O. Wilson
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives... -- Franz Kafka
...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. -- Orhan Pamuk
History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved. -- Humberto Maturana
It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing. -- Kate Morton

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