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• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  C. Wagner

  Three, Social Transformation, Violence

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• Kyoto is dead and has been dead, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't done some real damage and won't continue to do some real damage," "If global warming turns out to be a problem, which I doubt, it won't be solved by making ourselves poorer through energy rationing." "It will be solved through building resiliency and capability into society and through long-term technological innovation and transformation.

  Myron Ebell

  Real, Mean, Kyoto

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• We are living at a time when the Prostestant church is rediscovering the truth that transformation in Christ occurs through the disciplines of formation. Finally, Adele Calhoun has pulled all of these together into one volume, complete with clear definitions and practices of a variety of ways that God uses to grow our lives. No longer do you have to root through scattered pieces of paper, nor a chapter here and there to get the big picture of the tried and true disciplines. This is one resource you will want to have at your fingertips.

  Greg Oden

  Practice, Roots, Discipline

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• My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated and didn't talk much to other kids. She was a little overweight, and the other kids looked down on her for that reason.But then she made a discovery about how to do something on the computer. The discovery was picked up by other kids, and within a few weeks there was a total transformation. This kid was now in demand. And that changed her feeling about herself.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Book, Kids

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Chemistry comes about through the transformation of earth, air, fire and water. All chemistry is just movement within those things, and so we experience the joys and the sorrows of hot and cold, and dry and moist, because of these chemical transformations. In a similar way, we create and experience a world of time, space, motion and energy, through our intuitions, our thoughts, our sensing and our feeling.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Air, Hot And Cold, Space

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Jesus, Christ

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• Medicine could have pretty far-reaching effects once we begin to look at the kinds of things that people can do to induce transformation in their thinking, their sensing, their intuiting and their feelings - and whether there's some power there that can be unleashed that would cause blockages that were primarily put in place through thought to be let go of.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Letting Go, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.

  Scott Jurek

  Running, Pain, Adversity

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• The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862

  Rudolf Clausius

  Law, Being Positive, Process

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• If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wine, Heart, Broken

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• The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Keys

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• Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

  Grace Hartigan

  Beautiful, Challenges, Possibility

  "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

  Glen David Gold

  Saws, Moments, Ends

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• The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

  Neil T Anderson

  Progressive, Moments, Salvation

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (1993). “Daily in Christ: a devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

  Barry Bergdoll

  Fall, Thinking, Intelligent

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• For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.

  Judy Reyes

  Numbers, Years, Work Out

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• The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

  Ralph Metzner

  Culture, Consciousness, Lsd

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• The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

  Ralph Metzner

  Discovery, Firsts, Lsd

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• Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Art, Perception, Photographer

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• Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

  Michael Porter

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration but transformation.

  Peter Leithart

  Naked, Welcome, Hospitality

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• Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

  Paul Collier

  Real, Opportunity, Use

  Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Nyu, Malls, Insidious

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• Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Eye, Journey

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