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• Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Destruction

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• We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

  Judith Butler

  Return, World, Loses

  "Judith Butler: 'What value do the humanities have?'". McGill University speech, speakola.squarespace.com. May 30, 2013.

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• When a critical mass of people have the Bible and apply what it teaches in their lives, a nation is transformed.

  Loren Cunningham

  People, Mass, Teach

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• He's been out for a while," she said. "You ready to take a break?" Hopper could exist in this living form or be transformed into a small statue, which helped avoid uncomfortable questions when people came by. Only she could transform him though. "Yeah. He keeps trying to eat my paints. And I don't want him to watch me kiss you goodbye.

  Richelle Mead

  Goodbye, Kissing, People

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

  Dan Brown

  Stars, Sky, Darkness

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.784, Knopf

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• Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

  Matt Chandler

  Heart, Grace, Darkness

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• For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

  George Eliot

  Sorry, Passion, Self

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29

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• [A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.

  Paul Tillich

  Mean, Reality, Men

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• In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Kings, Years, Black

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.107, Broadway Books

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• During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence

  Edith Hahn Beer

  Butterfly, Night, Long

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• As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will soon be a minority, should we not ask some pertinent questions. Is this racial diversity enriching, or will it be damaging to our social fabric?

  David Duke

  Pertinent Questions, Ku Klux Klan, America

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• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

  William Segal

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Government, Survival

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

  Tony Kushner

  Nashville, Stories, Influence

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• On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. "A Time to Break Silence," at Riverside Church

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Journey, Men, Compassion

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.

  Jean Vanier

  Children, Self, Broken

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.26, Paulist Press

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• To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

  Hermann Hesse

  Collective Unconscious, Order, Confusion

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• Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don’t expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Falling In Love, Unexpected, Moments

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• Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine!

  Milan Kundera

  War, Mean, Men

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• Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Life, Lying, Science

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• Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Integrity, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

  Gene Edwards

  Men, Broken, Doe

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.42, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

  Peter Padfield

  Wall, Powerful, Ocean

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• The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Powerful, Simple, Who I Am

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• Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Glowing, Vision

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