"Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves."
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"Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less."
"Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future."
"What words are in you that can change the world?"
"Now get the hell out of here and go change the world."
"We're changing the world with technology."
"We are free to change the world and start something new in it."
"The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself."
"You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world."
"Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself."
"We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly."
"I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact."
"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."
"How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head."
"Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world."
"It takes a checkbook to change the world"
"Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will."
"Ordinary won't change the world."
"Children can change the world."
"When you are finished changing, you are finished."
"I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do"