“Keep track of gradual improvements. A small change every year can translate to a huge change in decades.”

— Hans Rosling, book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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“It is equally obvious and it became clear … that no ruler can legislate a social revolution. He can implement the outward form of social change, but he cannot legislate change in the minds of the people. Stable and lasting change has to evolve slowly and gradually over a period of many generations. What signaled the beginning of the end … was the radical modernization program, which virtually affected every aspect of Iranian life … [including] the sweeping emancipation of women, which moved as it were 13 centuries in the course of three decades.”

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“Changes in the inhabitants of the earth do not reflect a constant process of improvement in the design of organisms, any more than changes in fashion over the years reflect a constant process of improvement in the quality of clothing.”

Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)

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“Years compress like fault lines in the mind. While everything else changes, the mind remembers exactly what it wants to remember. A decade can be lost and a year seem like forever.”

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“A wise man can never be disappointed of whatever happens. It is only a change that makes things good and bad. And life is meant for change every second to keep the standard of existence.”

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach (1995)

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Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States

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“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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“Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they to change themselves to improve their circumstances.”

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“Keep track of gradual improvements. A small change every year can translate to a huge change in decades.”

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