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

  Anita Diament

  Wedding, Husband, Judaism

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

  Bob Inglis

  Fundamentals, Freedom Of Religion

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• I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

  Roland Allen

  Believe, Thinking, Profound

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• Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

  Grace Napolitano

  Safety, Risk, Investment

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• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Polly Toynbee

  Faith, School, Government

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

  Julius Streicher

  Book, Greek, Christianity

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• It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

  Cory Doctorow

  Girl, Ebay, Games

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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