Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VH
Victor HugoThoughts, Postscriptum de ma vie, translated in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography (1907)
About Victor Hugo
French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables. (1802-1885)
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- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Les Misérables (1862)
- One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.Histoire d'un crime (1877)
- Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.William Shakespeare (1864), Part I, Book II, ch. 4
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- Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.Barack Obama
- I'm asking you to believe in yourselves. I'm asking you to stop settling for the world as it is, and to help us make the world as it should be.Michelle Obama
- The biggest, most dramatic change happens incrementally, little by little, through compromises and adjustments over years and decades.Michelle Obama
- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.Winston Churchill
- To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.Winston Churchill
- Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
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