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• I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'

  Will Ferrell

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

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• Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

  Sloane Crosley

  Lesson Learned, Lessons, Study

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• Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Would Be, Phases, Earth

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• Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

  Julia Gillard

  Wind, Politics, Abundance

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• We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  People, Machines, Dramatic

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• It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Ideas, Progress, Wipe

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.97, Verso

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• There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

  Marie Corelli

  Grief, Seems

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.29, The Floating Press

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• Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang
  Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang
  Drugs slang in the drug game with the hustling
  (I know one thing) Anything is better than that 1 train

  ASAP Rocky

  Gun, Boys, Nuts

  Song: One Train, 2013

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• It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

  David Levithan

  Son, Two, People

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.52, Egmont UK

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• Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.

  Isaac Marion

  Winter, Lasts, Firsts

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Evil, Secret

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• The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination of Western politicians. For this reason Western politicians cannot grasp the fact that the Soviet intention is to win by 'democratic' means. Through transition to a new system, the Soviets are revitalising their own people and institutions, and they are succeeding. Contrary to Western belief, they are holding their ranks together.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency". Book by Anatoliy Golitsyn, 1995.

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• The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Struggle, Air, Water

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• Let's learn to live!
  Then there is no death,
  save the transition, when desired.
  Many live who have never died as yet.

  Edgar Cayce

  Rest In Peace, Died

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• Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Safe Haven

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, People, Support

  "Cheney: 'Direct Threats Require Decisive Action'". Dick Cheney's speech to the World Economic Forum in Cologny, Switzerland, www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2004.

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• Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Responsibility, Oil

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• I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Character, Actors

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• At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

  Kobe Bryant

  Games, Trying, Stuff

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• When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

  Chaz Bono

  Transgender, Rejected, Realised

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• ...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, War, Oil

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• ...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by reforms, but only by a qualitative change of the capitalist system, by revolution. Hence, in order not to err in policy, one must be a revolutionary, not a reformist.

  J. Stalin

  Communication, Order, Class

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• Last year they came in and won the game; that's how I would define it. Revenge is never on our mind. What's on our mind is playing defense, rebounding, taking care of the ball, and running our transition game.

  Karl Hobbs

  Running, Revenge, Years

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• People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Eye, Maturity, Long

  Berthold Auerbach (18??). “Little Barefoot: Or, Strive and Trust, a Tale of Village Life”

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• The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.

  Ed Miliband

  Together We Can, Issues, Community

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