[Ads-l] Modern Proverb: If you always do what you've always done,
James A. Landau
JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM
Wed Apr 27 20:35:32 UTC 2016
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:35:00 Zone-0500 Susan G Yerkes <susanyerkes at UTEXAS.EDU> wrote:
<quote>
I have been looking for reliable attribution for the related quotation
"If nothing changes, nothing changes."
My Google searches have just turned up a myriad of speakers and slight
variations of the wording. Any suggestions?
<end quote>
Distantly related:
from The Sound of Music
"Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
But somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good"
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