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"Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action."
"Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right."
"My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking."
"A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ]."
"Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture."
"All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something."
"When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?"
"In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole."
"The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself."
"I love anything that has to do with expanding and becoming more than you can actually become. Going further than you did before."
"You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse."
"Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book."
"It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age."
"Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic."
"Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else."
"Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming."
"Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists."
"Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming."
"A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop."
"We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater."
