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Change is our earliest teacher, our constant companion, our dearest enemy, our most fickle friend. Change spins the multicolored top of the probable world and it becomes the shimmering mist of the possible universe. Change is motion and light and fear. Change is the standard and the thing it measures. Change makes telling worthwhile and listening useful. Change is the what and the why of reading.
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Jennings, F.G. (1965). The Value of the Book in a Changing World. In: This Is Reading. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4232-8_5
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