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• I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.

  Joy Harjo

  Stars, Past, Dust

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• The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

  Roland Barthes

  Art, Progress, Doe

  Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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• Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Men, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1746, Manonmani Publishers

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• We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

  Richard Meier

  Past, Long, Architecture

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• People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings, containing the whole of the evolving universe, limitless until we start limiting them. We must examine the concept of leading and following with new eyes. We must examine the concept of superior and subordinate with increasing skepticism. We must examine the concept of management and labor with new beliefs. And we must examine the nature of organizations that demand such distinctions with an entirely different consciousness.

  Dee Hock

  Eye, Organization, People

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.73, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Change, Angel, Devil

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• Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Choices, Doe

  Jillian Michaels (2011). “Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.80, Harmony

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• I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Thinking, Law, Habit

  "Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

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• ... it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation - practiced with another person of the same sex - and thence into total homosexuality.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Sex, Done, Sin

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Attitude, Gay

  "Obama on Marriage: 'Attitudes Evolve, Including Mine'". Interview with Joe Sudbay, www.advocate.com. October 27, 2010.

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• The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

  Tom Doak

  Golf, Design, Subtlety

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• I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.

  Michael Greger

  Eye, Responsibility, Thinking

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• What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?

  Marie Forleo

  Ideas, Mr Right, Self

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• But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

  Yossi Klein Halevi

  Religious, Essentials, Doe

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• My life is like a song and I think I know the words,
  And as I start to sing along the whole verse becomes a blur.
  So I freestyle improv, make mistakes and evolve,
  The obstacles repeat, cause naturally it revolves.

  MURS

  Song, Mistake, Rap

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• The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Loyalty, Thinking, Nwo

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• The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Insightful, Evolution Of Man

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• The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

  Deepak Chopra

  Failure, Home, Media

  "The Greatest Crisis in the World" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2005.

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• Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Space, Focused

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• I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

  Andrew Motion

  Moving, Want, Sympathetic

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• It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

  Janet Napolitano

  Technology, Tsa, Would Be

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• Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.

  Erykah Badu

  Heart, Mean, Following

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• They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.

  Erykah Badu

  Hate, Moving, Play

  "Beywatch" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. May 30, 2016.

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• I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

  John Kricfalusi

  Character, Ideas, Stories

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• This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

  Satya Nadella

  Jobs, Mistake, Technology

  "'Our industry does not respect tradition': CEO Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees" by Brad Chacos, www.pcworld.com. February 4, 2014.

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