[Ads-l] Modern Proverb: If you always do what you've always done, you always get what you've always gotten

[Susan G Yerkes]

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> On Apr 26, 2016, at 3:31 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Poster:       Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Modern Proverb: If you always do what you've always done, you
>              always get what you've always gotten
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> Doesn't this go back to Aristotle? "Nothing changes into change" or some
> such?
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> 
> DanG
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>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> If nothing changes, nothing changes (Nothing changes if nothing changes).
>> 
>> 1978  Proposed Aircraft Sales to Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia: Hearing=
> s
>> before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives=
> ,
>> Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session (Washington DC: U.S. Government
>> Printing Office) 90: [Congressman Stephen Solarz:] =E2=80=9CWould you say=
> that in
>> the absence of any significant changes that the Saudis would not have the
>> need for additional advanced aircraft?=E2=80=9D [Secretary of Defense Har=
> old
>> Brown:] =E2=80=9CIf nothing changes, nothing changes.=E2=80=9D  1991  Ant=
> onio V. Almeida,
>> =E2=80=9CInside the Manhole: New Design on a Leaky Link,=E2=80=9D in Envi=
> ronmental
>> Engineering: Proceedings of the 1991 Specialty Conference, edited by Pete=
> r
>> A. Krenkel (New York: American Society of Civil Engineers) 100: =E2=80=9C=
> Finally,
>> as government regulation reflects a growing concern for worker safety, th=
> e
>> well-being of system inspectors must be the ultimate criterion by which a=
> ll
>> manholes are judged. The axiom of =E2=80=98nothing changes unless somethi=
> ng
>> changes=E2=80=99 is obvious.=E2=80=9D  1993  Ottawa Citizen, 30 Apr.: =E2=
> =80=9CAfter a chat one
>> night with a fellow seeking counsel about a problem of drink, this is wha=
> t
>> the old man said: =E2=80=98The simplest notion but the most difficult rea=
> lity we
>> must face is that if nothing changes, nothing changes.=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D =
> 1998  Mail on
>> Sunday [London], 29 Nov.: =E2=80=9CBut then I said to myself, =E2=80=98wh=
> en are you going
>> to move to the country? Do you need a man and a baby to do it? No. Then d=
> o
>> it now. Nothing changes if nothing changes.=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D
>> 
>> --Charlie
>> 
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>> Susan G Yerkes <susanyerkes at UTEXAS.EDU>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 2:35 PM
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>> Subject: Re: Modern Proverb: If you always do what you've always done, yo=
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>> always get what you've always gotten
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>> 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
>> varia=3D
>> tions of the wording. Any suggestions?
>> 
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