Become Quotes
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it…
— Marcel Proust
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You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.
— Keri Russell
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Love is not what we become but who we already are
— Stephen Levine
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation…
— George Washington
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I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he…
— Ronald Reagan
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When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to you. You chose…
— David Petraeus
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,…
— George Washington
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I support lowering the level of legal immigration by a moderate amount at this time. Legal immigration reform must be based upon principles that are…
— William J. Clinton
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Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.
— William J. Clinton
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We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they…
— Ronald Reagan
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I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here…
— Mitt Romney
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring…
— Peter Mayle
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin…
— W S Merwin
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Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain…
— Hsuan Hua
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The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the…
— Nhat Hanh
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Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is…
— George Wald
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
— Alexander Hamilton
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people…
— Aberjhani
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to…
— Herbert Spencer
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Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to…
— Harry Belafonte
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Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
— Juvenal
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Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church,…
— Henry D. Moyle
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a…
— Louis Agassiz
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