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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

—Elbert Hubbard

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

—Confucius

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

—Cicero

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

—Abraham Lincoln

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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. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

—Unknown

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.

—Robert F. Kennedy

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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

—Robert F. Kennedy

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

—Gordon Atkinson

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

—Ramsay Clark

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

—Nelson Mandela

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

—Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

—Meryl Streep

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

—Martha Beck

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

—Marcus Aurelius

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