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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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• 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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• Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Attitude, Horizon

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.19, Discovery House

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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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• Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with the Constitution, but the reality of state - society relations is dramatically altered by the counter-terrorist claims of emergency rule and the right of exception.

  Richard A. Falk

  Reality, Democracy, Speech

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.

  Arundhati Roy

  Philosophical, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently.

  George Johnson

  Book, Thinking, Brain

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• Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

  Gerald Brenan

  Time, Acquisition, Imitation

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• The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, Form, Stores

  Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.360

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• 3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Years, Way, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.

  Vicki Goldberg

  Distance, Technology, Doors

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• The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

  Miranda July

  Real, Balance, Trying

  "The Rumpus Interview With Miranda July". Interview with Zack Ruskin, therumpus.net. April 18, 2012.

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• My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

  Susan Schneider

  Reality, Drug, Perception

  Source: thequietus.com

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• But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand — to refer to his happy illustration — does not now stand alone. Instead of one, we see many footprints, each in turn in advance of the print behind it, and on a higher level.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Illustration, Feet

  "The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed".

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• I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.

  Alison Rosen

  Desire, Want, Drink

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

  Marcel Dzama

  Real, Character, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Energy, Waste, Dare

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Triangles: A Novel”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Drug, Mind

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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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• As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from my lungs. The intense magnetism he exuded grew in strength, becoming a near tangible impression of vibrant and unrelenting power.

  Sylvia Day

  Eye, Air, Force Of Will

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.17, Penguin

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• Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

  Rose Tremain

  Character, May, Pages

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

  Josh Radnor

  Giving, Insight, Feels

  "Josh Radnor & Elizabeth Olsen Are Okay With Being Earnest In ‘Liberal Arts’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

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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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