Change

"Whole world's changing, even I see that now. Our time... has pretty much passed. They don't want folk like us no more. It's their rules or be damned with you. But I tried in the end... I did."

"Sometimes, to make a little bit of change in people’s lives they just need a tent or a little bit of food, a bit of support or a little education."

"J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits."

"For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death."

"Our images/feelings/thoughts have to be conflicted before we see the need for change."

"Nè spegner può per star nell'acqua il foco; Nè può stato mutar per mutar loco."

"Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave."

"Il n'y a rien de changé en France; il n'y a qu'un Français de plus."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Maybe sometimes, we've got it wrong, but it's all right The more things seem to change The more they stay the same [...] Maybe sometimes we feel afraid, but it's all right The more you stay the same The more they seem to change Don't you think it's strange?"

"Never underestimate change. What seems simple at the top is magnified at lower echelons and is extremely disruptive. It is a festering crisis that needs attention from senior management or else loyalty, efficiency, and productivity will suffer."

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.… Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

"The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes."

"my slogan is “The Pen is Funnier than the Sword”—which I really believe. I’m committed to non-violent change."

"Captain James T. Kirk: If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial, doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?"

"Mirror Spock: One man cannot summon the future."

"Captain James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present."

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

"There has been one constant, as far back as we can understand: The world is always changing."

"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."

"Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

"We feel change ... is likely to work against us. ... We do not think we have great ability to predict ... where change is going to lead. We think we have some ability to find businesses where we don't think change is going to be very important. ... we think we know in a general way what the soft drink industry, or the shaving industry, or the candy business is going to look like 10 or 20 years from now."

"A change came o'er the spirit of my dream."

"And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake."

"Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings."

"How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room, Where high-born men were proud to wait— Where Beauty watched to imitate."

"I am not now That which I have been."

"Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?"

"All that you touch/You Change./All that you Change/Changes you./The only lasting truth/Is Change./God/Is Change."

"The world was changing, and it wouldn’t change back."

"Change is the only constant."

"Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind."

"To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope."

"we live in a time when change comes rapidly-a time when much of that change is, at least for long periods, irrevocable. This is what makes our own task so urgent. It is not often that a generation is challenged, as we today are challenged. For what we fail to do-what we let go by default, can perhaps never be done."

"When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change."

"It is only little men and creatures low in the scale of organization who never change."

"Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle."

"We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole."

"An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?"

"Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi."

"Nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunæque vicissitudines."

"Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse."

"Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum."

"Everyone's changing, I stay the same, I'm A solo cello outside a chorus"

"Still ending, and beginning still."

"On commence par être dupe, On finit par être fripon."

"Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast."

"The vibrancy of change permeates the air around all of our nations, human and more-than-human."

"Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant."

"Will change the Pebbles of our puddly thought To Orient Pearls."

"The times they are a-changin'"

"Change happens because of individuals who team up with others or inspire others. And soon you’ve got 10 or 100 or 1,000, and then you’ve got a movement."

"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos."

"Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring."

"We are at a very exciting moment in history, perhaps a turning point, said Ilya Prigogine, who won the 1977 Nobel prize for a theory that describes transformations, not only in the physical sciences but also in society—the role of stress and "perturbations" that can thrust us into a new, higher order. Science, he said, is proving the reality of a deep cultural vision. The poets and philosophers were right in their intimations of an open, creative universe. Transformation, innovation, evolution—these are the natural responses to crisis. The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to be feared or subdued. Our pathology is our opportunity."

"In every age, said scientist-philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, man has proclaimed himself at a turning point in history. " A n d to a certain extent, as he is advancing on a rising spiral, he has not been wrong. But there are moments when this impression of transformation becomes accentuated and is thus particularly justified." Teilhard prophesied the phenomenon central to this book: a conspiracy of men and women whose new perspective would trigger a critical contagion of change. Throughout history virtually all efforts to remake society began by altering its outward form and organization."

"Nothing can remain static. Things are either moving forward or moving backward."

"Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c'est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre."

"Although we accept the inevitability of change, humans meet it with a lot of resistance. In most cases, change threatens those in positions of advantage and for the most part they are there in the first place to keep things the way they are. ...Yet at every turn, vested interests (those who have the most to gain in keeping things the way they are) oppose even technological changes... And so it goes.... Until scientific inquiry came of age, human beings could not comprehend their relationship to the physical world, so they invented their own explanations. These explanations tended to be simplistic and in many cases, harmful. For example, if one knows a tidal wave is approaching and chooses to stay and pray for deliverance rather than leaving, this could be detrimental to his/her survival... Scientists ask the question “what do we have here?” and then they proceed to do experiments to determine the nature of the physical world... Better values, ideals, and behavior cannot be fully realized while there is still hunger, unemployment, deprivation, war, and poverty."

"It takes 11 guys to change the world. It takes five to change a university."

"Great change begins with small steps taken at home."

"Social change does not spring forth from the minds of generals or presidents-in fact, change is often blocked by the powerful. Change starts with ordinary people working in their communities. And that's where media should start as well."

"The times change, and we change with them."

":Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis"

":Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis"

":Illa vices quasdam res habet, illa vices."

": All things are changed, and we change with them"

": that matter has some changements, it (does have) changements (colloquially, that matter changes is demonstrated by the changes in matter)"

"Greek philosophy returned for some time to the concept of the One in the teachings of Parmenides... His most important contribution... was, perhaps, that he introduced a purely logical argument into metaphysics. "One cannot know what is not—that is impossible—nor utter it; for it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be." Therefore, only the One is, and there is no becoming or passing away. Parmenides denied the existence of empty space for logical reasons. Since all change requires empty space... he dismissed change as an illusion."

"Nothing endures but change."

"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."

"Change is a difficult, often violent process, both for individuals and for whole species. The more rapidly change, the uglier the conflict."

"Change has been promised before."

"Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin."

"Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse."

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better."

"Non si male nunc et olim Sic erit."

"Plerumque gratæ divitibus vices."

"Non sum qualis eram."

"Amphora cœpit Institui; currente rota cur urceus exit?"

"Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?"

"Quod petiit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit."

"Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis."

"Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus."

"Deus hæc fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice."

"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place."

"So many great nobles, things, administrations, So many high chieftains, so many brave nations. So many proud princes, and power so splendid, In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended."

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"Some people react to fear by seeking security, change, control. The rest accept the change and just go on about their lives."

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"

"He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty."

"We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle."

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."

": The more things change, the more they stay the same."

"We forget that people can change, including our own people; including ourselves."

"As activists we need to believe in vision and imagination; communicate a sense of possibility. Bleakness is not the whole story, and escape is not the only alternative. Change is possible...history is shaped by people operating as people do, making choices with their consciousness limited by material reality and by their perceptions of material reality. This means by their perceptions of possibility too. Simply put, if people don't think change is possible, they won't try."

"To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident. I observe regretfully that in politics, however, it can be heresy. It can be denounced as radicalism, or branded as subversion. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. It hardly seems necessary to point out in California - of all States -- that change, although it involves risks, is the law of life."

"Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims."

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

"But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future."

"The world goes up and the world goes down. And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again."

"Change tends to fill people with this incredible fear."

"Coups de fourches ni d'étrivières, Ne lui font changer de manières."

"They met with cold words, and yet colder looks: Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought The other only changed, himself the same."

"A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge."

"Any great change is like cold water in winter — one shrinks from the first plunge; and a lover may be excused who shivers a little at the transmigration into a husband. (Vol.II, Chapter 7)"

"The pleasure of change is opposed by that of habit ; and if we love best that to which we are accustomed, we like best that which is new."

"It has nothing to do with being anti-gay, or anti-black, or anti-Latino, or anything like that. Latino characters should stay Latino. The Black Panther should certainly not be Swiss. I just see no reason to change that which has already been established when it’s so easy to add new characters. I say create new characters the way you want to. Hell, I’ll do it myself."

"Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last— It runs as runs the tide."

"It is owing to the changeability of sciences and philosophy that they are so unproductive of glory, either at the hands of contemporaries or posterity. For when new discoveries, or new ideas and conjectures, greatly alter the condition of this or that science from its present state, how will the writings and thoughts of men now celebrated in these sciences be regarded? Who, for instance, now reads Galileo's works? Yet in his time they were most wonderful; nor could better and nobler books, full of greater discoveries and grander conceptions, be then written on such subjects. But now every tyro in physics or mathematics surpasses Galileo in his knowledge. Again, how many people in the present day read the writings of Francis Bacon? Who troubles himself about Malebranche? And how much time will soon be bestowed on the works of Locke, if the science almost founded by him progresses in future as rapidly as it gives promise of doing?"

"Truly the very intellectual force, industry, and labour, which philosophers and scientists expend in the pursuit of their glory, are in time the cause of its extinction or obscurément. For by their own great exertions they open out a path for the still further advancement of the science, which in time progresses so rapidly that their writings and names fall gradually into oblivion. And it is certainly difficult for most men to esteem others for a knowledge greatly inferior to their own. Who can doubt that the twentieth century will discover error in what the wisest of us regard as unquestionable truths, and will surpass us greatly in their knowledge of the truth?"

"For the first time in human history we have available the production technologies to create unprecedented abundance. All this converges into an extraordinary opportunity to combine the hardware of our technologies of abundance and the software of archetypal shifts. Such a combination has never been available at this scale or at this speed: it enables us to consciously design money to work for us, instead of us for it. I propose that we choose to develop money systems that will enable us to attain sustainability and community healing on a local and global scale. These objectives are in our grasp within less than one generation's time. Whether we materialize them or not will depend on our capacity to cooperate with each other to consciously reinvent our money."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."

"I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap."

"All things must change To something new, to something strange."

"But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right; Things have been mended that were worse, And the worse, the nearer they are to mend."

"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors’ tactics, the oppressors’ relationships. Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals. For Black and white, old and young, lesbian and heterosexual women alike, this can mean new paths to our survival."

"Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose."

"Omnia mortali mutantur lege creata, Nec se cognoscunt terræ vertentibus annis, Et mutant variam faciem per sæcula gentes."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however,is to change it"

"You can’t hate change. It’s like hating life."

"There are moments that change everything, and once things have been changed, they do not change back."

"Why are they [people] more likely to listen to people who tell them they can't make changes than they are to people who tell them they can?"

"Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!"

"Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky, Dreary the leaf lieth low. All things must come to the earth by and by, Out of which all things grow."

"The past is being ground to pieces by the mill of inexorable, incomprehensible change."

"In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."

"To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new."

"Nous avons changé tout cela."

"Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general.""

"All that's bright must fade,— The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest."

"to change the world, we have to change ourselves-even sometimes out most cherished, block-hard convictions."

"... some people try to get on the cutting edge of change — they are destroying other people, instead of being destroyed themselves."

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit."

"Nihil est toto, quod perstet, in orbe. Cuncta fluunt, omnisque vagans formatur imago."

"My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!"

"Let us convert this night we are breathing together to a bright morning."

"Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn, And Pan to Moses lends his Pagan horn."

"See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again; All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath and die)."

"Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind, Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined."

"Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times."

"Debout, les damnés de la terre Debout, les forçats de la faim La raison tonne en son cratère C'est l'éruption de la fin Du passé faisons table rase Foule esclave, debout, debout Le monde va changer de base Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout"

"Tournoit les truies au foin."

"Be at peace with the things you can't change"

"If you want to change the world, change yourself."

"In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."

"True change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is futile for political systems to force human beings to cooperate or construct social bonding structures. People already do that, naturally; it is evident in our evolutionary history."

"Corporis et fortunæ bonorum ut initium finis est. Omnia orta occidunt, et orta senescunt."

"With every change his features play'd, As aspens show the light and shade."

"As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race."

"When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true."

"It is to this law that our souls must adjust themselves, this they should follow, this they should obey. Whatever happens, assume that it was bound to happen, and do not be willing to rail at Nature. That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure, and to attend uncomplainingly upon the God under whose guidance everything progresses; for it is a bad soldier who grumbles when following his commander."

"Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis."

"Hereditary Rather than purchased; what he cannot change, Than what he chooses."

"This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. -"

"That we would do, We should do when we would; for this "would" changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this "should" is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing."

"The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death."

"All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, And all things change them to the contrary."

"I am not so nice, To change true rules for old inventions."

"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."

"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed,—but it returneth."

"Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow, Or worse; but 'tis a bitter woe That love or reason cannot change."

"Nought may endure but Mutability."

"Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire and Victory."

"Change is the essential process of all existence."

"We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and trusts. That does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be exploited. But it does mean that we should look out for one another when and as much as we can; and that we have a personal responsibility for our behavior; and that our behavior has consequences of a very real and profound nature. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, "You can't change the world." But the world is changing every day. Only question is...who's doing it? You or somebody else?"

"This sad vicissitude of things."

"The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly."

"Am I a fool to think that I could change the world and not change too? [...] Is it so bad to shut the door and just accept we can't go back?"

"Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur."

"Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change."

"Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life."

"Is humanity ready for a transformation of consciousness, an inner flowering so radical and profound that compared to it the flowering of plants, no matter how beautiful, is only a pale reflection? Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and become like crystals or precious stones, so to speak, transparent to the light of consciousness? Can they defy the gravitational pull of materialism and materiality and rise above identification with form that keeps the ego in place and condemns them to imprisonment within their own personality? p. 8"

"Most ancient religions and spiritual traditions share the common insight – that our “normal” state of mind is marred by a fundamental defect. However, out of this insight into the nature of the human condition – we may call it the bad news – arises a second insight: the good news of the possibility of a radical transformation of human consciousness. In Hindu teachings (and sometimes in Buddhism also), this transformation is called enlightenment. In the teachings of Jesus, it is salvation, and in Buddhism, it is the end of suffering. Liberation and awakening are other terms used to describe this transformation."

"The new spirituality, the transformation of consciousness, is arising to a large extent outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind dominated religions, although the institutionalized hierarchies felt threatened by them and often tried to suppress them."

"Until very recently, the transformation of human consciousness – also pointed to by the ancient teachers – was no more than a possibility, realized by a few rare individuals here and there, irrespective of cultural or religious background. A widespread flowering of human consciousness did not happen because it was not yet imperative. A significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if they haven’t already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die."

"Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi."

"The first law of the universe is everything changes, all the time."

"So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 'tis a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain."

"Change played in its new fashion with the world for twenty years. To most men the new things came little by little and day by day, remarkably enough, but not so abruptly as to overwhelm."

"Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges."

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

"Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid, the ships ought to be all captured, and the cities battered down, and the world burned up, so that we can start again. There would be fun in that. Some interest, — something to talk about."

"Life is arched with changing skies: Rarely are they what they seem: Children we of smiles and sighs— Much we know, but more we dream."

"There is, in the institutions of this country, one principle, which, had they no other excellence, would secure to them the preference over those of all other countries. I mean — and some devout patriots will start — I mean the principle of change. I have used a word to which is attached an obnoxious meaning. Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? What is there in the physical world but change? And what would there be in the moral world without change?"

"In the moral world — that is, in the thoughts, and feelings, and inventions of men, change may certainly be either for the better or for the worse, or it may be for neither. Changes that are neither bad nor good can have regard only to trivial matters, and can be as little worthy of observation as of censure. Changes that are from better to worse can originate only in ignorance, and are ever amended so soon as experience has substantiated their mischief. Where men then are free to consult experience they will correct their practice, and make changes for the better. It follows, therefore, that the more free men are, the more changes they will make. In the beginning, possibly, for the worse; but most certainly in time for the better; until their knowledge enlarging by observation, and their judgment strengthening by exercise, they will find themselves in the straight, broad, fair road of improvement. Out of change, therefore, springs improvement; and the people who shall have imagined a peaceable mode of changing their institutions, hold a surety for their melioration. This surety is worth all other excellences. Better were the prospects of a people under the influence of the worst government who should hold the power of changing it, than those of a people under the best who should hold no such power."

"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now; the spot is curst."

"As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low."

"I heard the old, old men say, "Every thing alters, And one by one we drop away." They had hands like claws, and their knees Were twisted like the old thorn trees By the waters. I heard the old, old men say, "All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters.""

"When the rate of change increases to the point that real time required to assimilate change exceeds the time in with change must be manifest, the enterprise is going to find itself in deep yohurt."