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Jai Ganesh

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Changing Quotes - V

Changing Quotes - V

1. I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness. - Keanu Reeves

2. In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith

3. It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it. - Anne Hathaway

4. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. - W. Somerset Maugham

5. In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' - Jimmy Carter

6. History is always changing. - Aung San Suu Kyi

7. 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. - Annie Besant

8. I think the climate has been changing for billions of years. - Buzz Aldrin.

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