"A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors."
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"Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit."
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"Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places."
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"It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm."
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"I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace."
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"The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy."
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"Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim."
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"We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case."
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"I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them."
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"I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much."
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"Women - - and men - - need to understand that a woman's transition is often much longer. The caretaker must leave the place of orientation to the needs of others to the place where she focuses on herself."
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"Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view."
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"A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city."
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"The transition from libertine to prig was so complete."
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"The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time."
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"Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you."
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"To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions."
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"Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!"
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"Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad."
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"Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms."
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