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The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: Alteration Arises Begins Concept Form Marvelous Miracle Reality Take Unexpected

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Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

~Carmen Dell'Orefice

Topics: About Alteration Body Clothes Fashion Fit Hungarian Influence Money More Mother Myself Needs Quite Tailor Taste Than Understand You Your Your Body

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Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Advances Alteration America Better Change Conservatism Country Different Itself Languages Love Made Maintained Preservation Progressivism Rooted See Striving Struggling Think Turn View You Your

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When I was little, and whenever I had to wear a dress while my mother took up the hem or made any alterations, she told me to keep a thread from the dress in my mouth while she was sewing, and that would keep me from getting stuck by the needle.

~Charlotte Rae

Topics: Alteration Any Dress Getting Had Keep Little Made Me Mother Mouth Needle Sewing She Stuck Thread Took Up Wear Whenever While Would

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I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

~Christian Bale

Topics: Alteration Attitude Before Better Body Body Language Changed Dad Died Father First First Time Grandfather Had He His Interesting Just Language Met My Own Our Own Relationship Relative See Seen Son Sort Time

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Even as our unwitting alterations to Earth's carbon and hydrological cycles slowly make storms more damaging, our ability to monitor our planet from space and make reliable short-term forecasts have equipped us enormously to withstand them.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Ability Alteration Carbon Cycles Damaging Earth Equipped Even Make Monitor More Our Our Planet Planet Reliable Short-Term Slowly Space Storms Them Us Withstand

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A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

~David Ricardo

Topics: Alteration Effect General Money Price Produces Profits Real Reason Rise Value Wages Whatever

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I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: About Alteration Any Front Had Hard Imply Lifestyle Long Mean More Name People Regarded Sir Than Think Way Would You Your

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However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

~Dick Thornburgh

Topics: Alteration Defined Federal Government However Law Local Local Government Powers Puerto Puerto Rico Recognized Rico Sovereignty States Subject While

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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Alteration Changes Consequence Fifties Getting Girl Happen Happening Knowing Lived London New New York Radical Ready Saw Society Themselves Those Time Way Were Without Years York Young Young Girls

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