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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Now everybody’s sampling.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.