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Change may refer to:

The process of becoming different

• Social change
• Biological metamorphosis
• Change (mathematics), the mathematical study of change
• Percentage change and fold change in statistics
• Personal development - especially if seen as personally "life-changing"
• Changing clothes

In music

Bands

• Change (band), an Italian-American disco/R&B group active in the 1980s
• Change (also known as Clockwork and Jimmy and the Soulblazers), an American R&B group active in the 1970s

Songs

• "Change", a song by Oingo Boingo from their 1994 album Boingo
• "Change", a song by Blind Melon from their 1992 album Blind Melon
• "Change", a song by Axium from their 2002 album Matter of Time
• "Change", a 2001 song by Conor and Jay, featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto III
• "Change", a 2005 song by Tracy Chapman on her album Where You Live, featured prominently in HBO promotions
• "Change", a 2008 song by Tess Gaerthé
• "Change", a song by Bobby Darin, used in the 2004 film Beyond The Sea
• "Change (In the House of Flies)", a Deftones song
• "Change", a song by Fishbone on their 1988 album Truth and Soul
• "Change" (Killing Joke song)
• "Change" (Kimberley Locke song)
• "Change" (Lisa Stansfield song)
• "Change" (Sugababes song)
• "Change" (Taylor Swift song)
• "Change" (Tears for Fears song)
• "Change", a song by John Waite
• "Change", a song by T-Pain from his album Thr33 Ringz
• "Change" (Daniel Merriweather song)
• "Changing", a song from Saosin's second album In Search of Solid Ground
• "Change", a song by Carrie Underwood
• "Change", a song by Keri Hilson featuring Akon

Albums

• Change (The Alarm album)
• Change (Vanessa Amorosi album)
• Change (The Dismemberment Plan album)
• Change (Pink Cream 69 album)
• Change (Ray Wilson album)
• Change (Sons of the Desert album)
• Change (Sugababes album)
• Change!, an album by the Black Swans

Other uses

• Loose change, coin money
• Change Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Change, Nepal
• Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment (CHANGE), a civic organization based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Change (TV series), 2008 Japanese television drama starring Takuya Kimura and Eri Fukatsu
• Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, a journal published for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching by Heldref Publications
• Change.gov, the website for the Obama administration's transition (November 2008 to January 2009)

See also

• All pages beginning with "Change"
• All pages with titles containing "Change"
• Changes (disambiguation)
• Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon
• Chang'e (disambiguation)
• Identity and change
• Impermanence

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From Wikiquote

Quotes regarding Change.

Sourced

• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  • Marcus Aurelius, in Meditations, IV, 3

• 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.
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in The Heart of Matter (1950)

• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
  • Charles Dickens in Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 18 (1844)

• 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.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Nature", Essays, Second Series (1844)

• Nothing endures but change.
  • Heraclitus, quoted in Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

• You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
  • Heraclitus, Fragment 41, quoted by Plato in Cratylus

• Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
  • Richard Hooker, as quoted in the preface of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

• Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life.
  • Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock‎ (1970), p. 304

• Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi.
  • If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
  • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Il Gattopardo (1958), The Leopard (trans. 1963) Page 29

• 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.
  • Editorial in the New York Journal of Commerce (August 1845)

Times change

Wikipedia has an article about:

Tempora mutantur

• The times change, and we change with them.
  • English variant of traditional Latin:

  Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis

  • Quoted (as “proverbial”) in William Harrison’s Description of England, 1577, p. 170, part of Holinshed's Chronicles
  • Variant of

  Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis

  Illa vices quasdam res habet, illa vices.

  All things are changed, and we change with them

   ? Her vices that she has, her vices. ?

  • Attributed by Matthew Borbonius as the motto of Lothair I.

• The times they are a-changin’
  • Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’

• Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

  The more things change, the more they are the same.

  • Alphonse Karr, Les Guêpes, January 1849, vi

• Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
  • Bertolt Brecht, as quoted in Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976) by John Gordon Burke and Ned Kehde, p. 224, also in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 390

Unsourced

• We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.
  • Christopher Alexander

• For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
  • Ingrid Bengis

• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
  • Henri Louis Bergeson

• It is not a matter of exposing one's unchanging identity, the true self that has always been, but a way of exposing one's ceaseless growth, the dynamic self that has yet to be.
  • James Carse

• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
  • Anatole France

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
  • Hazel Henderson

• In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
  • Eric Hoffer

• It can change as much as it likes. As long as it stays the same
  • Adrian Mourby

• Change is not a matter of not doing something. It is a matter of doing something else — something that is inherently right, free, and pleasurable. Therefore, the key is insight and the freedom to feel and participate in ways of functioning that are right and new.
  • Adi Da Samraj

• In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.
  • Albert Schweitzer

• Cambia, todo cambia.
  • Changing, everything is changing.
    • Mercedes Sosa

• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
  • Leo Tolstoy

• History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.
  • Mark Twain

• Of the forces which are imperceptible forces, none is greater than that of change ... all things are ever in the state of change ... therefore the I of the past is no longer the I of today.
  • Zhuangzi

• All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
  • Ellen Glasgow

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

• Growth is the only evidence of life.
  • John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

Anonymous

• All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness.
  • Buddhist chant

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From Wikisource

Change may refer to:

• The Change, a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
• Change, a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Change, a poem by Sara Teasdale.
• Change, a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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