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This quotation examines the core nature of Change as articulated by Rudy Giuliani. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Change provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Rudy Giuliani

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 108th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the U.S. Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. Giuliani led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. After a failed campaign for mayor of New York City in the 1989 election, he succeeded in 1993, and was reelected in 1997, campaigning on a "tough on crime" platform. He led New York's controversial "civic cleanup" from 1994 to 2001, and appointed William Bratton as New York City's new police commissioner. In 2000, he ran against First Lady Hillary Clinton for a U.S. Senate seat from New York, but left the race once diagnosed with prostate cancer. For his mayoral leadership following the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was called "America's mayor" and was named Time Person of the Year for 2001.

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"There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader."

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"There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design."

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"Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom."

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More about Change

"Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick."

— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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"Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas."

— Edward de Bono
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"There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change."

— Albert Camus
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

— Abraham Maslow
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