change

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

"It is not always obvious that metaphor has played this all-important function. But this is because the concrete metaphiers become hidden in phonemic change, leaving the words to exist on their own. Ev…"

"I’ve come to believe that you cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it."

"If a movement is not a threat, it cannot change a system based on centralized coercion and violence, and if that movement does not realize and exercise the power that makes it a threat, it cannot dest…"

"The present industrial era brought with it a new governing class, as every considerable change in human environment must bring with it a governing class to give it expression. Perhaps, for lack of a r…"

"There are only two forces that unite men — fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment."

"Self-preservation is a paramount desire in all of us. Good and evil are interchangeable. When the wolves pull down a fawn I don't doubt the doe would consider it an evil act. For the wolves it is a ne…"

"Vickery points out that the Kissinger-Nixon policy during the last two years of the war was a “major mystery,” for which he suggests an explanation that appears to us quite plausible. Referring to the…"

"Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fai…"

"We should harbor a positive mentality to any cross-strait development and exchange."

"The concept of a velvet revolution in Iran should not be considered as groundless fear."

"He needed some rather extensive changes in the relationship of the cosmos to himself."

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is no…"

"When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon."

"The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discont…"

"What I have now offered is meant merely for the sake of my country, for the simple question is: will you change your Ministers and keep the Empire, or keep your Ministers and lose the Kingdom?"

"The sun is still the number 1 factor in our energy balance. No matter how much people argue about CO2, they can't successfully explain the pre industrial revolution 900-1300AD Medieval Warming Period …"

"Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language."

"Modern institutions are transparently purposive and that we are in the midst of an evolutionary progression toward more efficient forms."

"We are, after all, evolved to relate to the physical world."