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“Cleo was like those little bluebirds of happiness in Cinderella, flitting around until Natalie had been transformed into a princess. A fraudulent one, to be sure, but a princess nonetheless. The silk dress from her mother's closet had been transformed into a couture masterpiece by the sartorial skills of Cleo's talented aunt. The sheath now fit like an extremely flattering glove. Its color, and the bright handwork accents, echoed the colors of the precious vase---jade green, turquoise, marigold, and fuchsia with veins of cobalt blue. She paired it with the gold-heeled sandals, the vintage watch, and a gold snake belt borrowed from Cleo.”

Accessories Alterations Dress Many Colors Silk Dress

Book:The Lost and Found Bookshop

Source: The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Still, all it really took was one alteration in my life, a change which appeared insignificant and unlikely at the time, nonetheless it has affected my outlook completely, turning it around the compass of my life.”

Change Alterations Life Afirming Change Personal Outlook

Author:Andrew James Pritchard

“The problem with radio frequency (RF) exposure is not the small amount of brain tumors, is it the large amount of subtle alterations in the brain that lead to attention, confusion, insomnia and fatigue problems.”

Problem Attention Brain Radio Confusion Subtle Exposure Fatigue Insomnia Frequency Alterations Tumors Rf

Author:Steven Magee

“Revolutions begin with what is most intimate, with the things that lay against our skin. Clothing-creators world and time over have taken the greatest risks expressing themselves through what is hidden—reimagining movement, finding breath. The alterations reverberate through each successive layer.”

Risk Fashion Movement Expression Revolution Layers Breath Alterations Clothing

Book:Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“It’s not about altering a reality that doesn’t suit us. Rather, it’s about asking if what suits us might need some alterations.”

Reality Truth Lies Suits Fact Opinions Alterations Distortions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.”

Ifs Humans Wells Universe Individual Human Beings Progress Evolution Fundamentals Series Desirable Permanence Hallmark Flux Alterations Stasis

Book:Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

“I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.”

Trying Done Black White Painting Preparation Black And White Cartoon Alterations

Author:E. J. Hughes

“A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits”

Mind Wells Doe Reason Feelings Song Moral Greater Effects Produce Habit Warm Strikes Convince Ballads Alterations

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.”

Giving Moments Process Attention Creativity Pieces Our Lives Creation Mediums Our Time Greatest Gifts Alterations Decisive Moments

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.”

Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek

“Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.”

Action Born Achievement Possession Fulfillment Outcomes Contentment Fullness Inaction Alterations

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.”

Long Different States Desire Purpose Differences Comfortable Increase Drawing Income Officials Collections Bureaucracy Status Quo Bureaucrats Alterations

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“GWEN is a superb system, in combination with cyclotron resonance, for producing behavioural alterations in the civilian population. The average strength of the steady geomagnetic field varies from place to place across the United States. Therefore, if one wished to resonate a specific ion in living things in a specific locality, one would require a specific frequency for that location. The spacing of GWEN transmitters 200 miles apart across the United States would allow such specific frequencies to be 'tailored' to the geomagnetic-field strength in each GWEN area.”

“In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.”

Courses Causes Results Behinds Mankind Scene Summer Spring Illusion Winter Deeper Convinced Thoughtful Autumn Portions Shifting Rite Alterations Summer And Winter

Author:James G. Frazer

“The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.”

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.”

Book Literature Effects Style Products Revolution Ordinary Transformation Alterations

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity - when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all - encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events.”

Humans Mean Doe Lines Views Destiny Events Possibility Patterns Work Out Point Of View Graves Chains Interfere Shaking Dots Unending Alterations

Author:Meher Baba

“Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.”

Kind Matter Lying Evil Differences Generations Conditions Subjects Circumstances Diversity Infinite Property Species Good And Evil Decay Entity Subject Matter Life Death Alterations

Author:Giordano Bruno

“Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.”

Thinking Wells May Helping Would Be Political Names Term Economy Economics Minors Convenient Troublesome Alterations Substitution Political Economy

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”

“Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.”

Ifs Doe Has Beens Ends Process Cells Chemistry Chemicals Anatomy Alterations Pathology Cellular Clarification

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.”

“All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.”

“Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.”

“Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.”

May Fall Danger Building Degrees Customs Ruined Bricks Inconvenient Alterations

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.”

States Government Difficulty Harmony Kingdoms Temper Honorable Reign Prosperous Harps Alterations Nero

Author:Francis Quarles

“How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.”

Littles Has Beens Character Might Crime Serious Blue Instance Awful Gentle Spite Might Have Been Pills Quarrels Liquor Dose Alterations Family Quarrel

Author:Charles Kingsley

“Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media.”

“Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.”

Ifs Book Values Deals Written Hundred Ceremony Rite Alterations

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral of physical government of the world.”

World Government Moral History Study Ordinary Awful Unconscious Occupation Rome Sage Greece Roman Empire Alterations Greece And Rome

Book:The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.”

Long Term Emotion Attention Brain Practice Study Meditation Blood Produce Flow Function Significant Long Term Related Andrew Cerebral Alterations Blood Flow

Book:Hallucinations

Source: Hallucinations

“Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.”

Addiction Mood Substance Alterations

Author:Susan Cheever

“There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.”

Trying Firsts Two Past Courses Process Conditions Development Periods Future Scientist Method Endeavor Historian Spheres Minors Surveys Sequels Alterations

Book:If I lived my life again

Source: If I lived my life again

“I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.”

Knows Stars Work Fronts Window Gold Flags Alterations Hem

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.”

Mind Helping Needed Patient Alterations Psychotherapists

Book:The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.”

Use Purpose Easy Common Quality Proportion Divided Quantity Decay Pledge Susceptible Alterations

Author:Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.”

“When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw theminto prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed.God blots out His people's sins, but not their names.”

People Men Doe Christian Hate Names Sin Grace Conditions Subjects One Day Blessing Prison Saint Christian Life Repent Decree Many Friends Alterations Chastisement Blessedness

Book:All Things for Good

Source: All Things for Good

“If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Shows Film Understood Instance Broadway Assured Alterations Fortnight

Author:Alan Bennett

“Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.”

“Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.”

Might Jobs Belief Plans Divine Tradition Salvation Managers Servant Aspire Economist Medieval Utopian Servant Of God Alterations Scholastics

Book:The Unconscious Civilization

Source: The Unconscious Civilization

“For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.”

Earth Generations Noble Etc Diverse Admirable Incessantly Alterations

Book:Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

“I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.”

Ifs Want Done Land Constitution Posterity Trifling Alterations

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.”

Belief Troublesome Alterations

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933

“When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.”

Giving Persons Happens Objects Ego Giving Up Setting Settings Alterations Substitution

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.”

Mind Important Matter Views Seeing Information Movement Flow Complexes Lovely Display Static Alterations

Author:Alan Perlis

“... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.”

Want Needs Real Today Courses Computer Photography Happenings Realism Rhetoric Unreal Jargon Alterations Imaging

Author:Barbara Kruger