George Packer: Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial...

Quote	Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought. Copy
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Quote: Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.
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Steve Jobs
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Change

Innovation is the ability...

Quote: An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
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Kim Campbell
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Change

An increasing number of...

Quote: The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch. Even a home run, the sport's defining big blast, is only metaphorically exciting; a fly ball that leaves the yard changes the score but may offer no more compelling view than an outfielder staring up.
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Richard Corliss
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Change

The typical baseball play...

Quote: When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
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Author:
Allen Klein
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Change

When you do find...

Quote: I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you.
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Daveed Diggs
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Change

I sort of have...

Quote: Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Queen Rania of Jordan
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Learning to read and...

Quote: One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing.
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Author:
Scott Weiland
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Change

One thing that has...

Quote: Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
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Author:
Christina Baldwin
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Change

Change is the constant,...

Quote: The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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Gary Becker
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Change

The Treatise tries to...

Quote: Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
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Author:
David Blunkett
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Changes to parliamentary procedure...

Quote: Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible.
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Author:
Norman Davies
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Change

Historical change is like...

Quote: Don’t wait for the right opportunity, create it.
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Author:
George Bernard Shaw
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Change

Don’t wait for the...

Quote: It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.
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Saint Basil
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Change

It is impious to...

Quote: It is often pointed out to me that, in a brief time, I have gone from unknown film editor to star of 'Gomer Pyle,' guest star in two TV specials, and a night club headliner, and that this must necessarily have wrought some deep changes in me.
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Jim Nabors
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Change

It is often pointed...

Quote: Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decisions that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
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Unknown
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Change

Every positive change in...

Quote: After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.
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Ben Bernanke
Category:
Change

After a long period...

Quote: Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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Author:
Larry Ellison
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Change

Oracle's latest database, version...

Quote: Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
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Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Change

Nothing is so painful to...

Quote: In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.
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Author:
Dan Ariely
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Change

In terms of the...

Quote: I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.
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Author:
Richard Greenberg
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Change

I do think the...

Quote: Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Author:
George Bernard Shaw
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Change

Those who cannot change...

Quote: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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Rumi
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Change

Yesterday I was clever,...

Quote: Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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Author:
Zac Goldsmith
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Change

Politics colours everything, and...

Quote: I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
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Author:
Diana Ross
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Change

I think that if...

Quote: I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
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Author:
Kate Winslet
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Change

I was very, very...

Quote: When we shift our perception, our experience changes.
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Author:
Lindsay Wagner
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Change

When we shift our...

Quote: Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
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Author:
Peter Medawar
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Change

Today the world changes...

Quote: Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Change

Colors, like features, follow...

Quote: Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
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Author:
Octavio Paz
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Change

Changes in our aesthetic...

Quote: You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.
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Author:
Roy T. Bennett
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You cannot change anyone,...

George Packer: Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial...

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