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Bob Utley, "Ecclesiastes 3" from the series Wisdom Literature: The Mysterious Books of Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535BC—c. 475 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, then part of the Persian Empire. Famous for his insistence on ever-present change as the fundamental essence of the universe, he observed, "No person ever steps in the same river twice." Wikipedia article.

Change is hard, but we don’t always fully understand why that's so. In this four-part series, Libby Copeland investigates the science behind why we resist change. —Libby Copeland, "Why Are We Afraid of Change? The Science of Uncertainty" Unstuck.

In economics and business decision-making, sunk cost refers to the cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered. Traditional economics proposes that we should not let sunk costs influence our decisions. Doing so would not be rationally assessing a decision exclusively on its own merits. Sunk costs do, in fact, influence our decisions because humans are prone to loss aversion and framing effects. In light of such cognitive quirks, it is unsurprising that people frequently fail to behave in ways that economists deem "rational". —Wikipedia article.

Rebecca Barlow Jordan, "Six Reasons We Resist Change" CrossWalk website.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, "Ten Reasons People Resist Change" Harvard Business Review, 9/25/2012.

"Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that do have biological processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate… The current definition is that organisms maintain homeostasis, are composed of cells, undergo��metabolism, can grow, adapt to their environment, respond to stimuli, and reproduce." Wikipedia article.

The Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American author Peter S. Beagle, published in 1968. It follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others. It has sold more than five million copies worldwide since its original publication and has been ranked among the 33 All-Time Best Fantasy Novels. Wikipedia article.

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