"You gain nothing by becoming cowards."
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"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?"
"Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable."
"When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day."
"Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave."
"You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact."
"There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood."
"If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker."
"The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker."
"India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages."
"I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly"
"Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing."
"Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films."
"Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts."
"The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many."
"In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming."
"For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance."
"If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity."
"It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being."
"Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others."