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Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t,’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)

Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t,’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)

Approximate author period: c. 1950 AD · modern

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Victoria Moran
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Approximate author period: c. 1950 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Victoria Moran: documented birth year 1950; activity date not established. Wikidata Q7926881, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7926881 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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