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This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

Meghan O'Rourke

Grief, Pieces, Demand

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The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

Alan Moore

Writing, Cutting, Long

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

Wilfrid Laurier

House, Four, Nine

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North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

Michael Kors

Clothes, Needs, Looks

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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

E. Stanley Jones

Brother, Son, Men

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The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

Mike Huckabee

Culture, Passing, Passings

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It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

Fred Durst

Perspective, Persons

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Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

Ovid

Death, Here And There, Spirit

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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led them little by little to the habit of living in the air, first by the water's edge and afterwards on all the dry parts of the globe. These animals have in course of time been profoundly altered by such novel conditions; which so greatly influenced their habits and organs that the regular gradation which they should have exhibited in complexity of organisation is often scarcely recognisable.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Science, Animal, Air

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As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

Joe Rogan

Yoga, Long, Way

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One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

George Sand

Reality, Years, Day To Day

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For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

Kathleen Norris

Giving, Grace, Attention

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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Bertrand Russell

Machines, Way, Instinct

Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.69, Psychology Press

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If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

T. H. White

Men, Years, Reptiles

T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.489, Penguin

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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

Bram Stoker

Believe, Destiny, Men

"Fictional character: Count Dracula". "Bram Stoker's Dracula", 1992.

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If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Law, Justice, Broken

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The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.

Nick Nolte

Sweet, Wind, Mexican

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To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.

Louis Auchincloss

Real, Writing, Character

Louis Auchincloss (1979). “Life, Law, and Letters: Essays and Sketches”, Houghton Mifflin

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my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

e. e. cummings

Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Voice, Stories, Facts

Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.11, Penguin

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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

Anais Nin

Attitude, Character, Mean

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It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft."

F. A. Harper

Liberty, Purpose, Use

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By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

Roald Dahl

Writing, Stories, Fifty

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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

Martin Gardner

Queens, Kings, Teaching

"Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.

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