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• Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, Viruses, Mutation

  Rebecca Skloot (2011). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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• If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Responsibility, Men, Civilization

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• If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Courage, Princess, Race

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• I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should have better manners, and need only a nudge. In high school, I was addressed for the first time in my life as "Mister Ebert" by Stanley Hynes, an English teacher, and his formality transformed his classroom into a place where a certain courtliness prevailed.

  Roger Ebert

  Life, Teacher, School

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• The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

  Mark Batterson

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

  Mark Batterson

  Christian, Jesus, Sin

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• The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

  John Berger

  Envy, Imagine, Buyers

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• In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.

  M. G. Vassanji

  Wise, Hands, Modern India

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• For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.

  David Berlinski

  Life, Dream, Men

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Hands, Perfect

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• It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

  George Will

  Eye, Airports, Imagination

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

  Derek Sivers

  Nuts, Leader, Followers

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• I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

  Paul Broca

  Son, Apes, Degenerates

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• The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Beautiful, Perfect, Heaven

  Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Honesty, What Matters

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

  Ivan Illich

  Kindness, Skills, People

  Ivan Illich (1972). “Institutional inversion”

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• In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Years, Diversity, Michigan

  Jennifer Granholm, Daniel Granholm Mulhern (2011). “A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future”, p.74, PublicAffairs

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• Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Teacher, Art, Father

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• We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

  Parker J. Palmer

  World

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.97, John Wiley & Sons

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• A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Gold, Pennies, Painter

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• All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire. You must want to be different [and intend to be] before you can begin to change yourself. Then you must make your future dream a present fact. You do this by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled. By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable.

  Neville Goddard

  Dream, Feelings, Mind

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• My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.

  Joan Mitchell

  Mirrors, Feelings, Landscape

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• The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Skills, Effort, Mind

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• When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Mind

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• Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.

  Vash Young

  Looks, Way, Depends

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