"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Change as articulated by Thomas Hardy. 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 Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.

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"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."

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"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."

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"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country."

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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.… Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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