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- Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
- Henry Steele Commager
- 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
- Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
- Alvin Toffler
- Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- 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
- Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity
- John Ballantine Gough
- A man's character is his guardian divinity.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
- Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
- John Howe
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