#convert

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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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

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As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving. ↗

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

#convert #faith #orthodoxy #faith

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

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To change, to convert? Why bother? ↗

— Lionel Blue

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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. ↗

— George Farquhar

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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

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Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail. ↗

— Joe Henderson

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I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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