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Quotes About Transition

As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Time continued to move forward, each new moment falling into the future like a line of dominoes.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
~ John Tyndall
We will be going on, won't we?" "I suppose so. Somehow it seems like the right thing to do.
~ John Varley
Natura non facis Saltus.
~ John von Neumann
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stiff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they have always been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.
~ John W. Gardner
It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface:
~ John W. Whitehead
Step down, pilgrim. Take a look
~ John Wayne
Yup. The end of a way of life. Too bad. It's a good way. Wagons forward! Yo!
~ John Wayne
And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts'... I usually have trouble with that phrase.
~ John Wayne
I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.
~ John Webster
When he was much older, he was to look back upon his last two undergraduate years as if they were an unreal time that belonged to someone else, a time that passed, not in the regular flow to which he was used, but in fits and starts. One moment was juxtaposed against another, yet isolated from it, and he had the feeling that he was removed from time, watching as it passed before him like a great unevenly turned diorama.
~ John Williams
Supongo que hago esto porque no importa si lo hago o no. Y puede ser divertido pasear por el mundo una vez más antes de regresar a los claustros y a la lenta extinción que nos aguarda a todos».
~ John Williams
He felt that wherever he lived, and wherever he would live hereafter, he was leaving the city more and more, withdrawing into the wilderness.
~ John Williams
What does become of people who slip quietly out of your life?
~ John Williams
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
~ John Wooden
When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.
~ John Wyndham
The way I came to miss the end of the world – well, the end of the world I had known for close on thirty years – was sheer accident: like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it.
~ John Wyndham
A tan?ili sme. PÃ…â"¢i ozvÄ›ne minulosti, na prahu neznámé budoucnosti.
~ John Wyndham
Death is just the shocking end of animation; it is dissolution that is final.
~ John Wyndham
And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.
~ John Wyndham
Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing." And what I was doing that year was leaving, even though I had not yet
~ Elizabeth Strout
Ximena walks through the emotionless atmosphere found only in new houses.
~ Elizabeth Tallent
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
~ Elizabeth Taylor