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• Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

  Diane Dreher

  Mean, Leader, Challenges

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• Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Religious, Real, Healing

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• Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Technology, Knows

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Government, Korea, Technological Development

  "Korea at the turning point: innovation-based strategies for development". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb and Young-Hwan Choi, 1996.

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• you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

  Jean Little

  Running, Mountain Ranges, Imagination

  Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

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• Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.

  James Hollis

  Mean, Forever, Desire

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.75, Penguin

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• The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.

  Frantisek Kupka

  Creativity, Independent, Artist

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• Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

  Martin Rees

  Loss, Action, Global Warming

  "Dark materials". Essay by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

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• If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Sacrifice, Church, Weakness

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• Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leader, Politics, Ordinary

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• The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

  Walter Pater

  Creativity, Exercise, Imagination

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your body at suhoor, but starve your heart of Qiyam. Don't reduce this downpour of mercy to just a month of sweets and lavish iftars. Seek Him, you will find. Take a sincere step towards change, transformation, redemption. If you do, you will find Him in front of you. Find Him this month. He's been there all along. Closer than your jugular vein. Look and you'll find. Walk and you'll arrive.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Sweet, Reading, Heart

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• If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, America, Special

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• Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Peace, Practice

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• The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Worried, Permit

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

  John Eldredge

  Jesus, Home, Joy

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• The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, May, Way

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• The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

  John Piper

  Heart, Humble, School

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• I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Thinking, Subjects

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• Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.

  Richard J. Foster

  Healing, Mean, Discipline

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• Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Illustration, Hands

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• Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, United States, Fuel

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• Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Able, Rivalry

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• This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Levels, Ascent

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• What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Unique, Thinking

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