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• As [the New York Times] winds down its years and is becoming more and more problematic, it's gotten more and more vicious, more and more vile.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Years, Wind

  Source: time.com

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• I'm a really private person. I just love my work. I feel like celebrity has changed so much, in this culture. Ever since they started with those reality shows and people that aren't actors but they're really famous, it's gotten very different from when I started out. So, the idea of ever becoming more than what I had is not really what I want.

  Winona Ryder

  Reality, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but it's now certainly the case that the postmodern mindset is dominant, particularly in the media. Therefore, when we start speaking in terms of certainties, we sound scary to other people.

  Mark Dever

  Media, Usa, Australia

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• The questionnaire is a simple first step toward becoming more self-aware.

  Nick Morgan

  Simple, Self, Firsts

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

  Florence Nightingale

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Source: imperialismeraflorencenightingale.blogspot.com

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• I think bitcoins are obviously becoming more and more relevant.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Bitcoin, Becoming

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• ... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that was taking place within me and around me; how my inner world affected my outer world and vice versa. I realized that the more awareness I have, the more choice I have in how I create or respond to the circumstances of my life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Choices, Growth, Vices

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• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Educational

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• Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is.
  Just go on becoming more and more aware
  you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension.
  It will bring great fulfilment

  Rajneesh

  Life Changing, Meditation, Goes On

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• The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

  Michael Scott

  Moving, Feet, Car

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.68, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Luxury, Lazy, Desire

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• There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

  George MacDonald

  Selfishness, Redemption, Littles

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7826, Delphi Classics

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• By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Real, Mean

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

  Charles Duhigg

  Change, Fitness, Patience

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change". Book by Charles Duhigg, April 5, 2012.

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• Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Circles, Becoming

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• This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Kissing, Kiss Me, Becoming

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• This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

  James Webb Young

  Business, Technology, Important

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• I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.

  Takafumi Horie

  Change, Mean, Japan

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• I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

  Jean Vanier

  Teaching, Psychology, Flow

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• Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Learning, Self

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• The world is becoming more affluent. We are generating more and more money - so more spending will go on. In the west, we're opening our purses and moths are flying out - but we've got to remember that, in other markets, this is not an issue.

  Joe Staton

  Business, Issues, Flying

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• Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less

  Hal Elrod

  Focus, Becoming, Achieve

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• I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, Doubt, Facts

  "The Secret of Noam: A Chomsky Interview". Interview with Jeff Jetton and Dakota Fine, chomsky.info. March 9, 2011.

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• The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.

  David Nicholls

  Kissing, Years, Sight

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.128, Hachette UK

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