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• A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God's eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.

  Charles Colson

  Eye, Past, Self

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• The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Personal Transformation, Attention, Pay

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• Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Miracle, Magic

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• In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.

  Camille Henrot

  Christian, Character, Animal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, Keys, World

  Source: renovare.org

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• Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare programs, the privatization of public goods and an appeal to individual accountability as a substitute for social responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Accountability, Deregulation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We're being asked to bring our humanness along in holding that love and compassion for ourselves as we make our way through this energetic time of transformation.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Compassion, Way, Energetic

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The Pleiadians said that at a certain moment in the future, when we go through our transformation, the Earth plane will shift back to its original pristine self.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Self, Earth, Moments

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

  Larry Wilmore

  Spiritual, Personal Transformation, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Different, Elements

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There is a wonderful documentary called 'A Room to Breathe,' where a school brought in a TM instructor, to try and establish a better classroom environment, and the results and transformations were profound. It's impossible to ignore, and we make some passing references in my film, but 'A Room to Breathe' is a closer look at just how powerful meditation can be.

  James Redford

  Powerful, School, Profound

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was - it's a story of human transformation, the powerful epiphany, Malcolm's X journey to Mecca, his renunciation of the Nation of Islam's racial separatism, his embrace of universal humanity, of humanism that was articulated through Sunni Islam. Well, that's the story everybody knows.

  Manning Marable

  Powerful, Journey, People

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush has internalized the founders' belief that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with a certain inherent yearning for freedom. In turn, Bush has applied this to his vision for the Middle East, believing that a democratic transformation in that region is possible, given that inherent desire for liberty within all hearts, including the hearts of Arab Muslims. People disagree with that, which is fine, but that's the Bush vision.

  Paul Kengor

  Believe, Heart, Eight

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• We have [unfriendly policies] here in Europe, too. We have them here in Germany, too. And to take up where the president left off, digitization is in a way a disruptive force, a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change, transformation of a society.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, President, Germany

  Source: time.com

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• I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Profound, Transition

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mind, Underestimate

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• Germany is using its Energiewende policy as a way of envisioning a green transformation and innovation across many sectors.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Germany, Green

  Source: www.salon.com

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• That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted.

  Susan Sontag

  Fall, Hands, Law

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I go through a transformation? Will I be bored or not? Is it a good or bad narrative experience?

  Saschka Unseld

  Bored, Narrative, Persons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Mistake, Believe, Mean

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by his theory of historical materialism. People were dragged into capitalism screaming, shouting, and fighting all along the way, trying to resist this industrial and commercial world.

  Murray Bookchin

  Reading, Fighting, People

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Practice, People

  "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh,the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk:The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

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