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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

Education, History, Human

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore Vidal

Money, American, Less

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
Max Muller

Love, Spring, Soon

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

Book, Dead, Talent

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.
Steven Spielberg

Change, Working, Whatever

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

Leadership, Before, Problem

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash

Trouble, Eventually, Cat

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
Eric Cantona

Life, Death, Football

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison

Happiness, Enemy, Less

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
Roy E. Disney

Decisions, Making, Values

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Great, Reality, Joy

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant

May, Become, Hatred

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham

Book, Eyes, Read

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde

Love, Women, Black

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
Mencius

Time, Good, Evil

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
Marshall McLuhan

Real, Rather, Means

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life, War, Death

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean Paul

Life, Morning, Live

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir

Woman, Rather, Born

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
Morihei Ueshiba

Mind, Heart, Universe

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid

Peace, Men, Anger

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Richard Nelson Bolles

Life, Change, Lost

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hermann Hesse

Everything, Different, Soon

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Kurt Huber

Justice, Law, Against

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
Susan Sarandon

Forward, Older, Point

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
Bo Bennett

Same, Excited, Building

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Margaret Sanger

Ignorance, Children, Deep

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

Wrong, Child, Adult

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil

Human, Play, Less

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
Giacomo Casanova

Passion, Everything, Liberty

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