#becomes

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ↗

— Felix Adler

#church #continue #long #maintain #purity

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ↗

— Freda Adler

#becomes #crime #only #victim #which

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#becomes #closely #looked #wonderful

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#being #believe #book #crush #different

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum. ↗

— Anita Baker

#complex #i #just #keep #life

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible. ↗

— William Baldwin

#affordable housing #becomes #causes #completely #demand

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old. ↗

— Mario Batali

#america #any #because #becomes #bread

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death. ↗

— Boris Becker

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Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there. ↗

— Peter Hall

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