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• Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Energy, Fuel, Earth

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.14, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?

  Andy Cairns

  Climbing, Advice, Needs

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• A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

  Jean Vanier

  Community, Majority, Members

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• I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

  Jeb Bush

  Ambition, Eight, Years

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• When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attachment, Suffering, Taoism

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• I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

  Sean William Scott

  Drama, Opportunity, Thinking

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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  Major Owens

  Rights, Two, People

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• We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or choices. The only significant choice we will have will be how we adjust to this new regime. That choice - not whether, but how to reduce energy usage and make a transition to renewable alternatives - will have profound ethical and political ramifications.

  Richard Heinberg

  Years, Profound, Choices

  Richard Heinberg (2005). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, p.6, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

  Timothy Geithner

  Giving, Doe, Recognition

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• I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

  Julie Benz

  Moving, Thinking, Acting

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• The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

  Timothy Geithner

  Recovery, Government, Needs

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

  Steve Forbert

  New York, Acceptance, Talking

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• No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

  Donal Logue

  Book, Thinking, Guy

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• Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

  Morgan Brittany

  Stars, Children, Careers

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• By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

  Paul Berg

  Molecular Biology, Becoming, Genes

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• By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

  Moshe Sharett

  Hands, Majority, Immigration

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• I've always lived a life where what you see if what you get. I've never wanted to live two different lifestyles. The initial transition for me was perhaps the most difficult. It wasn't easy communicating what I believed and what my values were. Establishing that as a young adult was interesting. I was 20 years old when I got saved.

  Kelly Clark

  Years, Two, Interesting

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  Ike Skelton

  Iran, Korea, Years

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• We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

  Michael K. Powell

  Law, Trying, Floating

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• It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

  Bille August

  Dream, Issues, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And so I'm still giving some thought. I will transition, hopefully, into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

  Hugh Shelton

  Giving, Looks, World

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Iraq, Democracy

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• Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.

  Darren Johnson

  Mind, Want, Outcomes

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• The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

  Joseph Addison

  Secret, Divinity, Causes

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.182

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• It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.

  William Bridges

  Alive

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