#became

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. ↗

— Robert Bork

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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. ↗

— Ian Botham

#being #chosen #clubs #cricket #crystal

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. ↗

— Lars Ulrich

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This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#after #art #became #because #i

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#became #first #full-time #i #made

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#because #coal #i #involved #knew

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#became #dancer #good #i #never

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#became #children #disaster #drunk #end

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

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