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“Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter, 28 March 2014
“Communism never sleeps, never changes its objectives, nor must we. Our first duty to freedom is to defend our own. Then one day we might export a little to those peoples who have to live without it. Let no one be under any misunderstanding about the inflexible resolve of Her Majesty's Government to strengthen our defences and to play our full part in the defence of a free Europe.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at "Youth for Europe" Rally (2 June 1979)
“The monkeys stand for honesty, Giraffes are insincere, And the elephants are kindly but They're dumb. Orangutans are skeptical Of changes in their cages, And the zookeeper is very fond of rum.”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee: All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.”
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) said by 1582 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem IX", in Complete Works St. Teresa of Avila (1963) edited by E. Allison Peers, Vol. 3, p. 288
“We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.”
Peter Medawar (1915–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sell the kids for food weather changes moods spring is here again reproductive glands”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes — and we must.”
Jimmy Carter (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dictatorship is necessary because it is a case, not of partial changes, but of the very existence of the bourgeoisie. No agreement is possible on this ground. Only force can be the deciding factor.”
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.”
James Joyce (1882–1941) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Augusta Gregory (November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, ] (p. 107)
“He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.”
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) said by 1592 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have often noticed that a bribe...has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.”
Graham Greene (1904–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that’s philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to see a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that’s science. Three: Awareness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by Murphy’s Law, sometimes offset in part by Brewster’s Factor: that’s engineering.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.”
Tom Stoppard (1937–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is an unparalleled beauty inside. When you are in that place, you realize that you are never alone. When the whole world gives up on you, you can turn inside. When you are ready to give up on the whole world, you can turn inside. When you want to be with the whole world, you can still go inside and experience this beauty. Nothing ever changes in there.”
Prem Rawat (born 1957) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miami Beach, Florida USA 1982
“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.”
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Typhoon (1902), Ch. 2
“Perhaps the word for the feeling I mean is serenity, a high acceptance, a recognition that Heracleitus's doctrine of eternal flow is a great truth, and while we may not, in ourselves, find the moment when the one element changes into the other, that moment will come and the consciousness of its inevitability may give us courage in adversity, and balance in good fortune.”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading “positive attitude” protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.”
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any new dominant communications medium leads to a new information ecology in society that inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings, wealth, power and influence are distributed and the way collective decisions are made.”
Al Gore (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there.”
Neil Young (born 1945) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Helpless, from Déjà Vu (1970)
“Where the eagle glides ascending There's an ancient river bending Through the timeless gorge of changes Where sleeplessness awaits.”
Neil Young (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have experienced personally over the past few years how a purity of diet and thought are interrelated. And when Americans become truly concerned with the purity of the food that enters their own personal systems, when they learn to eat properly, we can expect to see profound changes effected in the social and political system of this nation. The two systems are inseparable.”
Dick Gregory (1932–2017) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dick Gregory's Political Primer (Harper & Row, 1972), p. 262.
“Unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitutes a total and near-instanteous transformation of culture, values and attitudes.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Clearly, in the new realities, we will have to make deep structural changes in our economy, and I will not pretend that they will be easy or that they will not lead to a temporary increase in inflation and unemployment.”
Vladimir Putin (born 1952) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Putin Calls For PURGE Of Pro-Western Russians", The Young Turks, Facebook, 20 March 2022
“In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.”
Paul Keating (born 1944) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Concession Speech, 2 March 1996.
“A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.”
Jeff Tweedy (born 1967) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed in 2004
“Things will get better only when you make the changes that are necessary to make them better.”
Harry Browne (1933–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. How many changes arise from such an independent mode of life!”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) said by 1798 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To state a timetable now would simply paralyze the proper working of government, put at risk the changes we are making for Britain and damage the country.”
Tony Blair (born 1953) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prime Minister's monthly press conference May 2006, Prime Minister's website.
“I also appeal to those who have already done most of their work for society. I hope that the changes you awaited or worked for for so long will bring joy and satisfaction into your lives. We need your experience, your wisdom and your love.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the strange.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have no plans at all to be running an asylum. This is a serious encyclopedia project. We *do* have to make our changes conservatively and slowly, so as to make sure that we preserve our open spirit to the maximal degree possible. But some people are just not suitable for editing here, and that's just a simple brute fact.”
Jimmy Wales (born 1966) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in an email Jimmy Wales sent to the WikiEN-l mailing list on February 26, 2004, at 5:06 PM CET
“As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you're watchin' a parade, make sure you stand in one spot, don't follow it, it never changes. And if the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction, you will fast-forward the parade.”
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world.”
Mitt Romney (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.”
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher… Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.”
Peter Agre (born 1949) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peter Agre's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2003
“But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Conservatism is the policy of making no changes and consulting your grandmother when in doubt.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed by Raymond B. Fosdick in Report of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1963, p. 49
“Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.”
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?”
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rivers Grow Small" (1963), trans. Czesław Miłosz
“I think that I am here, on this earth, To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place Has meaning because it changes into memory.”
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your support for the aspirations of the developing countries to effect structural changes to the international economic order cannot go without special mention.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is important to re-examine policies, and make structural changes so that policies and structures do not become objectives in themselves, but rather the means of achieving economic, social and political targets.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Cleveland, Ohio.(Sept. 11, 1918) Eugene V. Debs Speaks, ed. Jean Y. Tussey (1970)