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“The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away--firmly but kindly--the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss.”

Stills Seems Lasts Young Change Wealth Loss Clear Changed Pride Keys Glory Standards Raises Remains Educational Empires Controlled Minors Impatience Tidy Slums Aboriginal

Book:Games with Shadows

Source: Games with Shadows

“I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.”

Knows Form Change Loss

Book:Dust tracks on a road

Source: Dust tracks on a road

“What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.”

Seems Government Left Change Loss Progress Violence Authority Capitalism Fundamentals Legacy Divides Sixty Patriarchy Whiteness Loss Of Faith

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.”

Doe Moments Joy Night Turns Change Wealth Loss Gone Fortune Mortals Misfortunes

Author:Sophocles

“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.”

Knows Doe Change Loses Loss Knowledge Draws Concepts Relation Conception Finality

Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”

Change Loss Grief Failure Losing Philosophical Delight Grieving Grief And Loss Things Change Lost Friendship Griefing Grief Loss Grief And Mourning Help With Grief

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.”

May Values Change Loss Pieces Raised Species

Book:Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.”

World Real Ends Change Loss Known Identity Safety Breakup Real Change

Author:James A. Baldwin