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- People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
- J. William Galbraith
- Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
- John Oliver Hobbes
- In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
- Madame Swetchine
- Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
- Alvin Toffler
- Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both
- Author Unknown
- Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
- Norman Douglas
- Self-trust is the essence of heroism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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