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We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.

We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

We change ideas like neckties.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.