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• Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Change, Years, Would Be

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• In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

  Christopher Reeve

  Vocabulary, People, Half

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product.

  Sung Kang

  Thinking, World, Buying

  Source: collider.com

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• The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.

  Mick Cornett

  Cities, Community, Leader

  "The Wrath Of Grapes: Oklahoma City MAPS Its Future" by Mick Cornett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.

  Rhonda Britten

  Hurt, Fear, Self

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.98, Penguin

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• Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

  Eda LeShan

  Cutting, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.

  Yair Lapid

  Religious, Thinking, Israel

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• Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.

  Immortal Technique

  Thinking, Imbeciles, Causes

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• There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.

  Sebastian Junger

  Couple, Ocean, Past

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• If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.

  Ann M. Martin

  Writing, Editors, Attention

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Differences, Becoming, Income

  "Widening Income Disparities" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.

  Michael Musto

  Commitment, Knowing, Elude You

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• Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

  Scarlett Pomers

  Weight, Becoming, Pounds

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• There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Men, Hands

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• I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, People, Use

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• I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Cynical, Marketing

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• Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Law, Roots, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred -Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Way, Becoming, Moments

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 46), 1937.

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• I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Becoming, Talk To Me, Assertive

  Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Animal, Doctors, Nuts

  Evalyn Walsh McLean, Boyden Sparkes (2000). “Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean”, Turner Publishing Company

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• For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

  Ken Stott

  Risk, Trying, Acting

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• The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Suicide, Business, Thinking

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• The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

  Larry Gagosian

  Art, Becoming, Consensus

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• I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Opposites, Age, Becoming

  "Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt's radical feminist" by Homa Khaleeli, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Being an actress in China, Im actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

  Zhou Xun

  Chinese, Lucky, Actresses

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