Converting Quotes

• Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

  Angela Davis

  Zoos, Jail, Prison Population

  Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)

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• People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• An overflow of good converts to bad.

  William Shakespeare

  Overflow

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.156

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• Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Time, Motivation

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.228, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Literature, Dull

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

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• Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Change, Notebook, Running

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• Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

  John Strachan

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Forever, Sin, Satan

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Men, Sea, Mind

  "The Evolution of A Revolt". The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, October 1920.

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• I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Men, Self

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

  Gregory Harrison

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Literature, Opposition

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• Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Thinking, Here I Am, People

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• No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.

  Richard G. Scott

  Worry, Peter, Conversion

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• To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

  Herbert Croly

  Opportunity, America, Independence

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

  Hazel Scott

  Thinking, Musician

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• Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.

  John Dykstra

  Mean, Color, Digital

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• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  Max Planck

  Change, Acceptance, Winning

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• The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Hippie, Rights

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• The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

  Richard G. Scott

  Commitment, Baptized In, People

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• The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

  Bob Inglis

  Fundamentals, Freedom Of Religion

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• It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

  Heinrich Heine

  Believe, Atheism, Literature

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• The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

  Ben Okri

  Stories, World

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.61, Head of Zeus

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• The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

  Todd Gitlin

  Desire, Attention, Genius

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