The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.
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Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
Harold Wilson
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Omar Bongo
Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.
Andy Law
Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to write about abuses and injustices that have already been partially corrected - you write about it after it's over.
Martin Amis
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.
Toks Olagundoye
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.
We must become the change we want to see.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time your were an embryo, and will keep on doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents it greatest strength.
James Trefil
