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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

~A. R. Rahman

Topics: After Away Belief Change Changed Convert Converted Death Decision Family Father Following Grew Healers Instantaneous Like Lives Mother Our Our Lives Past Patch Religion Rough Saint Spiritual Stronger Through Took Us Washing Years

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Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony's, Oxford. The gentlest of gentle academics, he helped establish a centre in Tibetan studies at Oxford and converted to Buddhism.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Academics Buddhism Centre Converted Establish Friend Gentle Good Good Friend He Helped Husband Late Michael Mine Oxford San Studies Tibetan

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'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

~Andrew Lloyd Webber

Topics: Britain Church Converted Did Itself Little Made Opera Phantom Score Stage Started Where

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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

~Anita Diament

Topics: Before Converted Husband Jim Judaism Just Our Wedding

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In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: Appointment Assistant British Contract Converted Given Lecturer Sensational Teaching Universities Usual Which

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I spent three weeks on a converted shrimp trawler with 17 people, two toilets, and one shower, all the while diving every day with very active sharks.

~Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Topics: Active Converted Day Diving Every Every Day People Sharks Shower Shrimp Spent Three Toilets Two Very Weeks While

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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

~Becky G

Topics: Converted Family Garage Grandparents Home Lost Moved Nine Old Our Six Us Years

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I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Attracted Converted England He Himself Included Lot Man Myself Opera People Process Put Rich Rich Man Very War

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Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Back Converted Died Dominican Republic Dusty Father Grew His Hospital Juan Public Republic San Town Up Without

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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Being Believe Converted Heart Imagination Men Often Soon Take Think

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