The public option is not optional. It is our toe-hold on structural change.
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Ellen Shaffer
change
Relationships are physics. Time transforms things- it has to, because the change from me to we means clearing away the fortifications you’r
Relationships are physics. Time transforms things- it has to, because the change from me to we means clearing away the fortifications you’r put up around your old personality. Living with Susannah made me feel as if I started riding Einstein’s famous theoretical bus. Here’s my understanding of that difficult idea, nutshelled: if you’re riding a magic Greyhound, equipped for light-speed travel, you’ll actually live though less time than will any pedestrians whom the bus passes by. So, for a neighbor on the street with a stopwatch, the superfast bus will take two hours to travel from Point A to Point B. But where you’re on that Greyhound, and looking at the wipe of the world out those rhomboidial coach windows, the same trip will take just under twenty-four minutes. Your neighbor, stopwatch under thumb, will have aged eighty-six percent more than you have. It’s hard to fathom. But I think it’s exactly what adult relationships do to us: on the outside, years pass, lives change. But inside, it’s just a day that repeats. You and your partner age at the same clip; it seems not time has gone by. Only when you look up from your relationship- when you step off the bus, feel the ground under your shoes- do you sense the sly, soft absurdity of romance physics.
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Darin Strauss,
Half a Life
When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change. –
When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change.
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Marilyn Suttle
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you’ve got everything worked out the colours change – Benny Bellamacina,
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you’ve got everything worked out the colours change
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Benny Bellamacina,
Piddly Poems For Children Volume 1
Happiness is the change that comes over mewhen I describe the worldIt comes over the worldHappiness is the change that comes over
Happiness is the change that comes over me
when I describe the world
It comes over the world
Happiness is the change that comes over me
when I’m afraid
It comes over the world
For instance I can be afraid of and for the world
afraid because the world consists among other things
of me so swiftly dying
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Inger Christensen,
it
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don t change because of it. It s just part of
If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don t change because of it. It s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.
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Sarah Dessen,
Just Listen
You know what I like most about people Pets. – Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose : An Amazing Way to Deal With Change
You know what I like most about people Pets.
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Jarod Kintz,
Who Moved My Choose : An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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Maya Angelou,
Letter to My Daughter