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Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or… — Nancy Kress
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about… — J I Packer
If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued… — Vladimir Lenin
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means… — Avicenna
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. — Oscar Wilde
An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing… — Johan Oscar Smith
In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and… — John Lennon
I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited… — Lionel Rose
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and… — Theodore Roethke
Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief… — Pope Benedict XVI
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it… — Henry Van Dyke
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
That was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other. — Ron Noades
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are… — George Washington Carver
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin
I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We… — Vladimir Putin

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