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Verily! it is the craving thirst that causes the renewal of becomings, that is accompanied by sensual delights, and seeks satisfaction now here, now there -- that is to say, the craving for the gratification of the senses, or the craving for a future life, or the craving for prosperity.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

You say 'this is where you are, this is what you are seeing at the moment' and quite often what they see is a very short sighted view of what they can become and what I say to them is we regard you not as human beings but as human 'becomings', this is what you can become, these are the possibilities for you and quite often they sometimes never think about those things, so when you show them those alternatives at least you are going to change the way they look at various things because now they can see different alternatives and outcomes for themselves.

CaribbeanCricket.com 2009

A temporal oddness asserts itself (at least, it does in my mind, which is by no means representative!): the intuition of a world in which our present becomings will have already passed.

Archive 2007-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

A temporal oddness asserts itself (at least, it does in my mind, which is by no means representative!): the intuition of a world in which our present becomings will have already passed.

Harry Potter Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Like lemmings we can continue over the fatal cliffs, or like rational thinking human beings, or more properly, human becomings, we must either perish from our mistakes or learn from them.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR MONEY? 2009

That ruse has restrained and constrained human-becomings for way too long on the planet.

You Can't Unring a Bell-You Can't Unsee What You Do See 2007

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Think Progress » Progressives Can Do Better: An Alternative to “Operation Offset” 2005

And we know about becomings and actions and about every change when we know the source of the movement; and this is other than and opposed to the end.

Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

Are there then also some becomings that are violent and not the result of natural necessity, and are therefore contrary to natural becomings, and violent increases and decreases, e.g. the rapid growth to maturity of profligates and the rapid ripening of seeds even when not packed close in the earth?

Physics Aristotle 2002

To this idea, always the same, and always obscure or unconscious, we then join, in each particular case, one or several clear images that represent _states_ and which serve to distinguish all becomings from each other.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900