#becomes

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

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When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

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To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. ↗

— Guru Nanak

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You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react. ↗

— Nelly

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The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

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