Converting Quotes

• Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

  Angela Davis

  Zoos, Jail, Prison Population

  Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)

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• People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• An overflow of good converts to bad.

  William Shakespeare

  Overflow

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.156

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• Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Time, Motivation

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.228, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Literature, Dull

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

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• Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Change, Notebook, Running

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• If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

  Margaret Atwood

  Female, Saint, Mary

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• To change, to convert? Why bother?

  Lionel Blue

  Bother, Why Bother

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• The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

  Ben Okri

  Stories, World

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.61, Head of Zeus

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• Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Dream, Reality, Important

  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.

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• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

  Rowan Williams

  Beauty, Order, Creative

  Sergeĭ Nikolaevich Bulgakov, Rowan Williams (1999). “Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology”, Tamp;t Clark Ltd

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• I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

  Matt Lucas

  Couple, Nice, Party

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• NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

  Jim Henson

  Black And White, Nbc, Color

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• It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

  Heinrich Heine

  Believe, Atheism, Literature

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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

  Todd Gitlin

  Desire, Attention, Genius

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doubt, Certainty, Verify

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• As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Real, Men, Dust

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, War, Cities

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

  Anita Diament

  Wedding, Husband, Judaism

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• We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

  Bob Inglis

  Giving, Support, Needs

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• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Military, War, Needs

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• It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

  Bede Griffiths

  Christian, Understanding, Together

  Bede Griffiths (1973). “Vedanta & Christian faith”

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• I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Song, Teacher

  "Song: Jesus Walks (Album: "The College Dropout")". 2004.

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