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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

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The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

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We first make our habits, then our habits make us. ↗

— John Dryden

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She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all. ↗

— Junot Díaz

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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? ↗

— Seth Godin

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To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. ↗

— Cornel West

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Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future. ↗

— Shamarion Whitaker

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