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• Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Lying, Hard Times

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

  Greg Walden

  Jobs, Loss, Average

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• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Theatre

  The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

  Alber Elbaz

  Personality, Dresses, Want

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• With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Wall, Flower

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• Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Mean, Leaving

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hall Grandgent (1947). “The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Complete”

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• I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?

  Tom Waits

  Adventure, Giving, Profound

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• She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

  Ian Mcewan

  Taught, Overwhelmed, Lifetime

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• In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers, not on the litter." Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Art, Book, Moon

  "The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (The Layers)". Book by Stanley Kunitz, 1978.

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• Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.' Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.

  Donita K. Paul

  Dog, Cat, Simple

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.274, WaterBrook

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• Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Effort, Remember

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• Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Night, Drug, Understanding

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• Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Mean, Political, Foundation

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

  Ana Castillo

  Encounters, Innocence, States

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• The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Names, Males

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• Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and ideas. Zora woke up this morning hopeful that a transformation of this kind might have visited her in the night, but, finding it hadn't, she did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Morning, Night

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

  Philip K. Dick

  Secret, Important, Modern Life

  "Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations".

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• The Gospel of transformation is from men and women of earth to men and women of eternities.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Men, Earth, Eternity

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• One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wave, Eat Love Pray, Endless

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Men, Individuality

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• We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to utter madness. I suggest we go to Paris instead.

  Maira Kalman

  Paris, Mustache, Brain

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• There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.” P. 38-39

  Alain de Botton

  Inspire, One Day, Swiftness

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• The universe is transformation.

  Louise Erdrich

  Universe

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• But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

  Alan Watts

  Opposites, Play, Choices

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.65, New World Library

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