The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it.

About E. B. White

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Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer, essayist, and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He was also the author of highly popular books for children: Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

—Christina Baldwin

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

—Carol Burnett

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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