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God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

– Samuel Butler

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

– James Truslow Adams

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Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

– John Adams

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Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.

– John Adams

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Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

– John Quincy Adams

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You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it.

– James Arthur Baldwin

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That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.

– Terence

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

– H. G. Wells

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

– Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

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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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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

– James A. Forude

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Life is like and ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

– Sharon Salzberg

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