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What does not change
is the will to change

— Charles Olson The Kingfishers (1950)

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Not one death but many,
not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is
the law

The Kingfishers (1950)

Around an appearance, one common model, we grow up
many.

And all now is war
Where so lately there was peace,
and the sweet brotherhood, the use
of tilled fields.

The Kingfishers (1950)

When the attentions change
the jungle
leaps in even the stones are split
they rive

The Kingfishers (1950)

with what violence benevolence is bought
what cost in gesture justice brings
what wrongs domestic rights involve
what stalks
this silence

The Kingfishers (1950)

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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