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• In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Punishment, Church, Target

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• A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

  Charles Edison

  Simple, Awkward, Confusing

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

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• Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.

  Margaret Atwood

  Falling In Love, Sex, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Understanding, Drug

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• A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Buddhism, Giving

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• I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

  Jennifer Damiano

  Night, Always Trying, Important

  "Jennifer Damiano" by William Van Meter, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

  Joseph Beuys

  People, Historical, Events

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• Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Gold, May, Matter

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.222, Broadview Press

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• Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Teacher, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

  Giordano Bruno

  Principles, Substance, Elements

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them. Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Country, Confused, Men

  William Stanley Jevons (1965). “Elementary lessons in logic”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  African American, Debate, Term

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Thinking, Vision

  "Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)". Jasper Johns, "Artforum International", Volume 7, No. 3, November 1968.

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• To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Technology, Men, Thinking

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.73, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has altered maternal expectations. This renders baby-care requirements discordant with ambition for many mothers, and produces heartfelt dilemmas for others.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Mother, Baby, Ambition

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• I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.

  Max Barry

  Book, Thinking, Guy

  "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.

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• Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

  Ellen Kushner

  Definitions, Sense Of Humor, Honest

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.109, Spectra

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• See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

  Jack McDevitt

  Blue, Perspective, Forever

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Two, Rama

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• It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.

  Publilius Syrus

  Plans

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• What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

  Horace

  Patience, May, Made

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Mom, Children, Parent

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Thinking, Two, Advice

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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