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"You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle."
"If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be."
"My movies are not about being, but becoming."
"Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete."
"When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant."
"I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized."
"We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization."
"Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons."
"Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true ."
"Are you becoming what you've always hated?"
"Nothing is, everything is becoming."
"We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves"
"One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure."
"If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it."
"The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary."
"Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism."
"I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something."
"The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes."
"One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them."
"[In 2007] People's relationship with a brand is becoming a dialog, not a monolog."
