"I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft."
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"In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over."
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"Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit."
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"Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under."
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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."
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"Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it."
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"If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment."
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"Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?"
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"The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being."
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"Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are."
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"Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile."
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"Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave."
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"Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories."
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"The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things."
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"I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love."
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"I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer."
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"That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'"
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"I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times."
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"In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element."
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