"Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?"
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"Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while."
"I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on."
"Things don't change. We change."
"Cool URIs don't change"
"Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it."
"When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
"You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly."
"As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there."
"Things don't change, people change."
"people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves."