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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. — Margaret Atwood
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet:… — Scott Adams
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. — Henry Ward Beecher
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say… — Lord Byron
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. — Thomas Aquinas
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,… — C.S. Lewis
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. — C.S. Lewis
They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting… — Barney Frank
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,… — Phillip Lopate
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure… — Amartya Sen
I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul. — Therese of Lisieux
Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought. — David Leadbetter
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will… — Swami Vivekananda
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and… — Therese of Lisieux
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to… — Milton Friedman
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our… — Alan Watts
Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly. — Wallace D. Wattles
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. — Richard P. Feynman

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