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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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It is not well to make great changes in old age. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach. ↗

— David Brainerd

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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. ↗

— Maxine Waters

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This country is undergoing great changes for the better. ↗

— William John Wills

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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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