Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.
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Cassandra Clare
If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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John Green
Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We wrote our names in the sand You crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.
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Kiera Woodhull
If onlyyou could have witnessed howmuch I have changed: sit alonein a disused theatre and feel what I have felt, see how the world hastransformed me, like the metamorphosisof a caterpillar.
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Kiera Woodhull
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