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Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively and exciting place.. Our city will not only have depth, but also the richness of diversity. But above all, Singapore will a home for Singaporeans.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that gives him more benefits than any other system yet devised by man. Loyalty leaves room to change the system when need be, but only under the ground rules by which we Americans live.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

No great thing happens suddenly.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Nought endures but change.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Nought may endure but Mutability.