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• Just because society has done things the same way for many years, that's no reason to continue doing them. Women will be the harbingers of retirement transformations going forward and will be more creative and humanistic in the process.

  Lee Johnson

  Retirement, Years, Creative

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• Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing.
  Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you
  want, but because of what you choose to do.

  Eric Greitens

  Want, Remember, You Choose

  Eric Greitens (2015). “Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence.  If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell.

  Peter Rollins

  Commitment, Responsibility, Doe

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• The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

  Peter Drucker

  Rights, Important Events, America

  "Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

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• There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.

  Stephen Shore

  Mean, Perception, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Apples, Stories

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" interview, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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• That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.

  Steven Harrison

  Lost Everything, Understatement, Loses

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• Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Knowledge Workers, Agents

  Peter F. Drucker (2014). “The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Virtue, Orientation

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.37, Routledge

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• With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Modern, Dentistry

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. August 24, 2007.

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• God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.

  Gary Haugen

  People, Miracle, Doe

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• The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

  John Ortberg

  Essence, Possibility

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.23, Zondervan

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• The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Goal, Life Is

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.

  William Anthony Donohue

  Moving, Information, Taught

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• Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Steps, Socialism, Economic

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.

  Jason Wu

  New York, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• en you show up to work and put on your undergarments, throw on your suspenders and your cowboy boots, throw some dirt on you, and then get on your spurs, you start to walk a bit different. When you put on your gun belts, you change again. You go through this whole transformation process. All that stuff changes you. Riding a horse changes the way you walk and your demeanor.

  James Badge Dale

  Horse, Gun, Cowboy

  Source: collider.com

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• To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage

  "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

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• I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Years, Choices

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• If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Revolutionary

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• 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

  Roger Zelazny

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Education is the transformation of civilisation

  Will Durant

  Civilisation

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• Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Growth, News, Committed

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2015

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• Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Falling In Love, Reading, Writing

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.164, Penguin

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