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Quote by Ivan Illich

“If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.”

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Ivan Illich, born on September 4, 1926 and died on December 2, 2002, was a renowned philosopher. His research focused on the fields of education, technology, and social criticism, reflecting deeply on modern society. more

“When God would make His Name known to mankind He could find no better word than "I AM." When He speaks in the first person He says, "I AM"; when we speak of Him we say, "He is"; when we speak to Him we say, "Thou art." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point. "I am that I am," says God, "I change not."”

Names Change Known Mankind Fixed

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.”

Fall Change Minutes Clouds Firm Cynthia

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.”

Men Change Tree Wind Quiet Woods Riot Gale

Book:A Shropshire Lad

Source: A Shropshire Lad

“SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.”

Kind Made Strong Change Taken Environment Cutting Stones Fishes Delicate Fabric Coarse Involuntary

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.”

Change Alive Vulnerable

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true.”

Giving Easy Change Being True

Author:Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

“If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Change Pay Attention Pay Attention Periphery

Author:Dean Rusk

“But times do change and move continually.”

Moving Change

Book:THE FAERIE QUEENE.

Source: THE FAERIE QUEENE.

“When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.”

Young Protect Starting Studios Actresses Lawyer Agents Host Sharks Starting Out Publicists

Author:Francesca Annis

“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”

War Peace Military Delightful Total War Just War Medieval War Military Experience

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

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