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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had. -- Timothy Ferriss
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority. -- Andy Grove
In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling. -- Chris Wooding
To change, to convert? Why bother? -- Lionel Blue
Time makes more converts than reason. -- Thomas Paine
An overflow of good converts to bad. -- William Shakespeare
The greatest religions convert the world through stories. -- Ben Okri
Leadership: Converting dreams into goals and goals into success. -- T Jay Taylor
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. -- Aldous Huxley
The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion. -- Bob Inglis
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. -- Anita Diament
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. -- Henry Ward Beecher
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. -- Thomas Carlyle
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had. -- Timothy Ferriss
Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet. -- Joseph Alleine
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? -- Heinrich Heine
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. -- Margaret Atwood
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. -- Rowan Williams
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. -- Angela Davis
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces. -- Bob Inglis
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. -- Todd Gitlin
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. -- Bede Griffiths
I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus. -- Kanye West
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. -- Ann Coulter
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation. -- Matt Lucas
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. -- Lord Byron
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though. -- Jim Henson
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. -- Lester B. Pearson
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. -- Charlie Sheen
You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real. -- Martin Parr
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting. -- Baba Kalyani
The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual. -- Mark Helprin
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. -- Max Planck
Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets. -- George Soros
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will. -- Antonin Scalia
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate. -- Michael Mandelbaum
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise. -- Clint Eastwood
The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have. -- Richard G. Scott
When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula. -- Brian Greene
There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge anyone. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive. -- Emir Kusturica
Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left. -- Todd Rundgren
In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action. -- Ben Rattray
Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image. -- John Dykstra
Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin. -- Liz Williams
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing. -- Michael Azerrad
That mighty Being, who heaped up these craggy rocks, and reared these stupendous mountains, and poured out these streams in all directions, and scattered immortal beings throughout these deserts - He is present, by the influence of his Holy Spirit, and accompanies the sound of the gospel with converting, sanctifying power. -- Adoniram Judson
My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version. -- Louis Leterrier
Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. -- Ambrose Bierce
Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting. -- Milton Friedman
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends. -- Maimonides
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine. -- Alan Kay
We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God. -- Francis Asbury
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events. -- Raimon Panikkar
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. -- Colin McEnroe
Relax, she's not really converting. (Acheron) Look at her! She's not exactly baking cookies! (Xypher) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. -- Miguel de Unamuno
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. -- Benjamin Peirce
Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have? -- Gregg Rogell
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal. -- Joseph Addison
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. -- Karl Marx
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. -- Max Muller
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole. -- Carl Jung
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. -- Peter Drucker
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard. -- Tris Speaker
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace. -- Thomas Boston
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse. -- Eric Hoffer
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. -- Ambrose Bierce
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging. -- Douglas Crockford
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing. -- Charles Hodge
From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power. -- John Mott
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion. -- S. N. Goenka
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth. -- Heber J. Grant
No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge. -- Thomas Jefferson
Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities. -- R.M. Jones
The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses. But this has never stopped us dreaming of them that way. -- Amanda Knox
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food. -- Michael Pollan
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action. -- Theodore Levitt

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