The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

Finley Peter Dunne
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When you look at the world around you, there are some things that are better than they were before, and some that are worse. But on the whole, things are changing, not getting worse, but changing. One of the biggest reasons is change itself. There's so much change all the time that it sometimes seems like everything is moving in circles instead of forward.

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