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“If you want things to stay as they are things will have to change.”
“The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)”
“There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.”
“As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.”
“All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.”
“When you get there there isn't any there there.”
“I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.”
“All things must change to something new to something strange.”
“I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.”
“'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.”
“Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.”
“Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.”
“Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.”
“What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.”
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.”
“We change whether we like it or not.”
“Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.”
“Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and whatever we do however well we do it it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.”
“All is change all yields its place and goes.”
“O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.”