The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.
Inspiring Change Quotes to Help You Embrace Life's Transformations - page 37
The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany
George Will
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
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I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.
Dan Bern
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
Joey Comeau
Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.
Chuck Close
Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.
James Small
The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.
Ned Sublette
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.
Michael Scott
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.
Millicent Fenwick
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Edward Hopper
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes.
Anne Geddes
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By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
