#becomes

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#case #certain #epidemic #infection #thought

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#becomes #composed #compress #either #extent

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#easily #emancipation #every #lie #new

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#cancer #colon #late #nine #once

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#ceases #certainty #doubt #doubts #entirely

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ↗

— Plato

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For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

#create #destroy #equivalent #female #life

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#before #elite #innovation #need #public

The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect. ↗

— Dick Morris

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