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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #3
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #5
    Barack Obama
    “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
    Barack Obama

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Frank Zappa
    “Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #8
    John Mayer
    “High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.”
    John Mayer

  • #9
    Simone Elkeles
    “Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.”
    Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

  • #10
    Elizabeth Scott
    “There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.”
    Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule

  • #11
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #12
    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #13
    Katharine Hepburn
    “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
    Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #15
    “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
    Madonna

  • #16
    “You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.”
    Taylor Swift

  • #17
    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

  • #18
    Andy Warhol
    “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
    Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: In His Own Words

  • #19
    Milton Berle
    “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
    Milton Berle

  • #20
    Markus Zusak
    “She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #21
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”
    Katherine Hepburn

  • #22
    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
    Norman Vincent Peale

  • #23
    Susan Sontag
    “The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
    Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

  • #24
    John Steinbeck
    “Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”
    John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

  • #25
    “Bending beats breaking.”
    Betty Greene

  • #26
    Stephen  King
    “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

    Or you don't.”
    Stephen King, The Stand

  • #27
    Toba Beta
    “Love without hope will not survive.
    Love without faith changes nothing.
    Love gives power to hope and faith.”
    Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

  • #28
    “You really can change the world if you care enough.”
    Marian Wright Edelman

  • #29
    Nicholas Sparks
    “I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”
    Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

  • #30
    Tess Callahan
    “All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.”
    Tess Callahan



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