"Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience."

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Source : James Rowland Angell (1937). “American Education: Addresses & Articles”

James Rowland Angell

#Change Quotes #Essence Quotes #Modern Quotes

“I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.”
“It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
“As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
“I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.”
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
“What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?”
“Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.”
“People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.”

Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins

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