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    Socrates
    “Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: change, self-determination, self-development
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    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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    Patricia Briggs
    “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
    tags: change, mind, summer, winter
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    Martin Luther
    “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
    ― Martin Luther
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    James Baldwin
    “People can cry much easier than they can change.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: change, cry, people
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: government, politics
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    Malcolm X
    “The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: activism, awareness, change, education, knowledge, revolution, truth
    269 likes

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  • #9
    “If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”
    ― Anita Roddick
    tags: actions, change
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

    [Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: change, future, past
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    Steve Maraboli
    “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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: change, compassion, history, kindness, life, mission, power-of-one, purpose
    60 likes

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    Peter M. Senge
    “People don't resist change. They resist being changed.”
    ― Peter Senge
    tags: change, resistance
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  • #13
    Plato
    “All is flux, nothing stays still”
    ― Plato
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  • #14
    Bauvard
    “If you want to change the world, just change yourself. The world needs traitors.”
    ― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
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  • #15
    “If not us, then who?
    If not now, then when?”
    ― John Lewis
    tags: action, change, civil-rights, integrity, moral-courage, personal-responsibility
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    Sophocles
    “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield
    1245 likes

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  • #17
    “It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective”
    ― Death Cab for Cutie
    tags: change, perspective
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    Joe Strummer
    “People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. ”
    ― Joe Strummer
    tags: change, inspirational, success
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    Toba Beta
    “Hypocrite shouts about the change,
    but never let risk coming on his way.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: change, hypocrite, risk, talk
    28 likes

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  • #20
    “You’ll never change the world just by complaining.”
    ― Tadahiko Nagao
    tags: change
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing
    tags: change, consciousness, movement, thought-provoking
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    William Ernest Henley
    “It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.”
    ― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death
    tags: captain, fate, master
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Jack Kerouac
    “The only truth is music.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: music, truth
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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    Jack Kerouac
    “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: failure, passion
    2319 likes

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  • #31
    Jack Kerouac
    “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    1335 likes



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