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• It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Justice

  Remarks by the President in Town Hall at Benedict College, Columbia, SC, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 06, 2015.

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• Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Anger, Water, Benefits

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• By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Understanding, Energy

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.52, North Atlantic Books

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• Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Sad, Hurt, Passion

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• I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Groups, Death Penalty, Crime

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• If we knock on the door until it opens, not taking no for an answer, our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.

  James Redfield

  Doors, Steps, Answers

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• Judging others will avail you nothing and injure you spiritually. Only if you can inspire others to judge themselves will anything worthwhile have been accomplished. When you approach others in judgment they will be on the defensive. When you are able to approach them in a kindly, loving manner without judgment they will tend to judge themselves and be transformed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Judging, Inspire, Able

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• Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Character, Process

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• Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

  Robert Anthony

  Dream, Inspiration, Passion

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• I would like to die
  as I have lived
  disappear among the tundra winds
  be transformed into birdsong

  Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

  Wind, Disappear, Birdsong

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• As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Ideas, Mind

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• If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Country, Memories, Distance

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Feb 25, 2012

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• The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Atoms, Earth

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Character, Government

  Simon Bolivar's letter from Jamaica, Summer 1815.

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• Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Our World, Perfection

  "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Only His Wings Remained", p. 54, 1985.

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• And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dream, Memories, Confused

  "Uncle Tungsten". Book by Oliver Sacks, 2001.

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• There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Views, Ifs

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. [...] That by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Song, Mean

  "Report to Greco". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, transl. by P. A. Bien, Faber and Faber Limited, "Naxos", Ch. 11, p. 96, 1973.

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• The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Identity, Matter

  "Song: 'So You Want To Write A Fugue'". 1997.

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• Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

  Langdon Brown Gilkey

  Men, Poetry, Unhappy

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• Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.

  Chet Raymo

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

  Kurt Sutter

  Wife, Cartoon, Dramatic

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• Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.

  Learned Hand

  Passion, Men, Law

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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