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transmute

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To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.

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The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity. El Lissitsky

It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. E. M. Forster

1. Small particles called atoms exist and compose all matter; 2. They are indivisible and indestructible; 3. Atoms of the same chemical element have the same chemical properties and do not transmute or change into different elements. John Dalton

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. Barbara Deming

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. Henry Miller

Well, all art is therapeutic and a positive place to transmute emotions from the negative into a positive. Nicolas Cage

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