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"Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels."
"[This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance."
"With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement."
"David [Cameron] has been an outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our conversation, I'm confident that the UK is committed to an orderly transition out of the EU."
"Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity."
"Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves."
"Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution."
"Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?"
"I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow."
"It was a very odd transition I guess because I didn't really intend for it to happen; it wasn't a goal of mine to end up in Hollywood and do anything other than sportscasting."
"It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism."
"I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing."
"The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12."
"You can go watch everything so you can see a transition of someone who is coming into his own. That's what I feel like my music is. I'm finally here, arriving and I know exactly what I want to talk to people about."
"I got more than I bargained for with him, too. Much more. I know he’s completely different now, but he was really nice and funny when he was human. But apparently his manners didn’t survive the transition.” Marc smiled. “Yeah, well , yours didn’t survive puberty, so you can’t really talk."
"How does Parker’s body compare with yours ” Great. A pop quiz I thought recognizing his transition into lecture mode. “How does Parker’s body compare with mine Hmm.” I gave Parker a quick theatrical once-over and he smiled clearly catching on to my line of thought. “Nice legs and killer biceps. But I have better boobs. No question."
"Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state."
"The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not."
"If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating."
"Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter."
