“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

—  Socrates

This is actually a quotation http://books.google.com/books?id=FUIHmRHf8SUC&amp;lpg=PA130&amp;dq=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&amp;pg=PA130#v=onepage&amp;q=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&amp;f=false from a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Peaceful_Warrior, by Dan Millman. <br class="br">Misattributed

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