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• However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Children, Parent, Easier

  "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.

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• The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.

  Thomas Boston

  Men, Offering, Grace

  Thomas Boston (1812). “Human Nature in Its Four-fold State of Primitive Integrity: Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise : Entire Depravation, in the Irregenerate; Begun Recovery in the Regenerate; Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in All Mankind in the Future State : in Several Practical Discourses”, p.161

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• By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.

  Derrick Jensen

  Sex, Confused, Believe

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• I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

  Maimonides

  Enemy

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• Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Magic, Coins

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• The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Discovery, Choices, Desire

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• Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.

  James Lovelock

  Ideas, Age, Tasks

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• We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

  Francis Asbury

  Prayer, Soul, Comforting

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• Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Writing, Exercise

  "A UNIQUE MOMENT': Obama to announce first gun steps with Biden this a.m. - POTUS is TIME Person of the Year -- Sen. Portman, Joey Scarborough bday" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. December 19, 2012.

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• The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Garden, Government, Investing

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• On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Pms, Fertility, Flow

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• The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

  Walker Percy

  Time, Lying, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.

  Colin McEnroe

  Running, Technology, Dust

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• Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

  Andy Grove

  Priorities, Firsts, Should

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• When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.

  Michael Azerrad

  Nice, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com.

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• Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls to Christ (cf. Gal. 3:24), so the glorified incarnate Logos of God is Himself a harbinger of His spiritual advent, leading our souls forward by His own teachings to receive His divine and manifest advent. He does this ceaselessly, by means of the virtues converting those found worthy from the flesh to the spirit. And He will do it at the end of the age, making manifest what has hitherto been hidden from men.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Teaching

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• Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Character, Foolish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1316, Delphi Classics

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• We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Thinking, Hands, Law

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• Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

  Max Muller

  Church, Missionary, Band

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• Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into
  food.

  Michael Pollan

  Perspective, Fuel, Growing

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Matter, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Cancer, Joy

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

  John Strachan

  Christian, People, Church

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• So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

  John Piper

  Moving, Giving, Joy

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• In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.

  John Strachan

  Christian, Belief, Apostles

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