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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
Becoming

"I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world."

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Rachel Martin Journalist
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"About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it."

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"That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain."

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Shania Twain Singer-songwriter
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"My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming."

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Ricky Jay Magician
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"That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
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"Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again"

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer."

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Ru Freeman Author
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"There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved."

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