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Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

Janet Evanovich

Thinking, Important, Want

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Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

Barry Eisler

World, Paper, Digital

"Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Barry Eisler

Book, Suffering, Paper

"Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

George Will

War, Rupture, Cymbals

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I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

Liberty Ross

Crazy, Moving, Character

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People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don't accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star.

Michael Jackson

Cute, Stars, Children

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It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Reflection, Night

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The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.

Frederick Lenz

Sunset, Buddhism, Dark

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One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

Josh Radnor

Thinking, Giving, Secret

Source: collider.com

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Past, Moments, States

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.126, Penguin

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Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

Jaime Winstone

Girl, Reflection, Years

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In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Bing Gordon

Air, Bigs, Grows

"With latest accolade, the future is Bing Gordon’s game (exclusive interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. January 14, 2011.

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As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

Eskinder Nega

Pain, Europe, Economic Sanctions

"A prisoner of conscience's call for sanctions against Ethiopia" by Eskinder Nega, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.

Edwin Percy Whipple

Song, Kings, Hatred

Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.4

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... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Pain, Firsts, Bears

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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Death is the great transition.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death

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It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Bill Vaughan

Alarms, Typical, Bells

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Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mean, Ideas, Progress

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we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

Ellen Goodman

Yesterday, Today, Morality

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You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Past, Forever, Facts

Source: abcnews.go.com

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We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3 Civilization would be galactic, like Star Wars. We are Type 0. We get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. But the question is: Will we make it? Will we make the transition from Type 0 to Type 1? It's not clear.

Michio Kaku

Stars, War, Civilization

"'It's all because of physics': an interview with Michio Kaku". Interview with Matt Fulkerson, www.theshorthorn.com. February 20, 2015.

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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

Novalis

Stuff, Action, Permanent

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Fear is the friction in all transitions.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Fear, Friction

Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

Margaret Cho

Real, Fire, Idols

Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.

Ernst Junger

Spiritual, Camouflage, Littles

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