Quotes with alter

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  • Samuel Johnson Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Cal Thomas People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Camille Paglia Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Soon my fists began to swell from hitting his hard head. Right then I realized Wing Chun was not too practical and began to alter my way of fighting.
    Bruce Lee in Black Belt magazine (October 1976)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Phyllis Bottome There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
    Phyllis Bottome
    British writer (1882 - 1963)
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  • Candace Bushnell Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • John Maynard Keynes When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
    The Economist (1983) Vol. 287, p. 19
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Arne Jacobsen With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Anne Hathaway You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
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  • Bjarke Ingels You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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