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• Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Learning, Self

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Teacher, Growing Up, Fun

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• Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.

  Richard Carlson

  Peace, Moving, Simple

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Break Out, Each Day, Examination

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• Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

  Susan Sontag

  Healthy, Alive, Becoming

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

  Michael Sheen

  Home, Thinking, Editors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

  Will Self

  Phones, Age, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

  Robert Redford

  People, Heritage, Development

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• I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Becoming, Unreal

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Country, America, Years

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• We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Apples, Androids

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• I'm becoming more adventurous.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Becoming, Adventurous

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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  E. O. Wilson

  Way, Becoming, Honest

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• New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.

  Fred Wilson

  New York, Real, Technology

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• Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

  Jane Goodall

  Religious, Views, Political

  "The Irrepressible Dr. Jane Goodall" by Elizabeth LeReverend, www.vergemagazine.com. June 17, 2009.

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• But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

  Perry Moore

  Becoming, Changed, Wanted

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• Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

  Gail Carriger

  Facts, Becoming, Attractive

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• Life is about becoming more of who you really are.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Becoming, Life Is

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• I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.

  Nancy Pearl

  Book, Talking, Long

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• I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

  Jean Vanier

  Teaching, Psychology, Flow

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• Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

  George Eliot

  Past, Years, Desire

  George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, Book, Reading

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.457, Penguin

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• I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

  Peter Hammill

  Thinking, Examination, Enthusiasm

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