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• The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

  Assata Shakur

  Running, Xenophobia, Color

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• We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

  Paul Hawken

  Environmental, Use, Way

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• Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

  Steve Schmidt

  Pride, People, Solitude

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• Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Inspiration, Important, World

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• Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

  Richard Rorty

  Philosophy, Progress, Becoming

  Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

  Joe Meno

  Reading, Ideas, Trying

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• Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

  Mick Taylor

  Player, Guitar, People

  "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

  Mike DeWine

  Becoming, Illness, Violent

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• My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

  Jean Moulin

  Becoming, Tasks, Increase

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• I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Thinking, Becoming, British

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• That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Attitude, Food, Justice

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• The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

  Harri Holkeri

  Country, Sea, Water Of Life

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• The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

  Wright Morris

  Imagination, Choices, Becoming

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• My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious.

  J. Lynn

  Dream, Becoming, Shattered

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• I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Girl, Space, Forever

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Though the world is becoming more wicked, the youth of Christ's Church can become more righteous if they understand who they are, understand the blessings available, and understand the promises God has made to those who are righteous, who believe, who endure.

  David B. Haight

  Believe, Blessing, Promise

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• Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of acquaintance confined to occasional calls upon one another; but that is now at an end; they are drawn together and are constantly becoming more and more intimately related and connected by a thousand fresh ties, and we may confidently look forward to a time when they shall form but one body with one soul.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Life, Math, Ties

  James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.124

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• It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

  Tony Robbins

  Inner Strength, Needs, Getting What You Want

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• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

  Bill Gates

  Gratitude, Kings, Food

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• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Degrees, World, Revolution

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• Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

  Roland Joffe

  Wrestling, Cities, Joy

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• The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than "I need to lose 30 pounds."

  Tony Robbins

  Self, Goal, Stronger

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.

  Cliff Martinez

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• So every time the Democratic Party appears to be lifting up a principled, people-powered agenda, it slaps it down and it keeps becoming more dominated by corporate money and corporatist, militarist policies.

  Jill Stein

  Party, People, Down And

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Air, Sea, America

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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