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• Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Tunes, Turn-on

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• I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.

  Bill Duke

  Simple, Men, Answers

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• What a strange turn of events.

  Delta Goodrem

  Events, Strange

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• I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

  Bea Arthur

  Real, Actors, Just Being

  TV Legends, August 6, 2005.

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• It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

  Judy Woodruff

  Long, Outcomes, Way

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• I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me to turn my music down and that made me angry 'cause I like loud music... so when he knocked on the wall, I'd mess with his head. I'd say Go around I cannot open the wall I dunno if you have a door on your side but over here there's nothin'. It's just flat.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Wall, Doors, Your Side

  "Comedy Central Presents", January 5, 1999.

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• It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take.

  Susan Lucci

  School, Twists, Looks

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• Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

  Shawnee Smith

  Sports, Games, Play

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• Mitt Romney we think is going run again. He says he has no plans to run, but he said if he did run, this time things would turn out differently. Yes they would. This time he would get his ass kicked by a woman.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Thinking, Ass

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• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

  Andy Roddick

  People, Return, Used

  "Greatest competitor: Andy Roddick". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2009.

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• Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

  William J. Clinton

  Wind, Water, Economic

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001".

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• It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.

  Chris Brown

  Girlfriend, Moving, Past

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• They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

  Kathi Appelt

  Lightning, Strikes, Begets

  Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to “re-turn” toward God.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Voice, Appeals, Repent

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• Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency.

  John Derbyshire

  Real, Character, Writing

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• There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

  Celia Rees

  Stars, Flower, Hands

  Celia Rees (2011). “The Fool's Girl”, p.78, A&C Black

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• The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.

  Orlando Figes

  Technology, Skills, Profound

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• It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic.

  Seth Klarman

  Thinking, Blood, Discipline

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• You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a difference, and turn this around. And to not take part and to just watch…….., but if you don't push back, if you don't face it and confront it for what it is, it'll just takeover, and then no one will be free.

  Vivian Kubrick

  Differences, Giving, Making A Difference

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• Instead of looking at the screen, what I want to do is to turn around and look the other way. When we look the other way what we see is a little hole at the top of the wall with some light coming out. That's where I want to go. I want to steal the key to the projectionist's booth, and then, when everybody has gone home, I want to break in.

  Jacques Vallee

  Wall, Home, Keys

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• The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army

  Jay Baer

  Army, Media, Volunteer

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• If you fall out of favor, you quickly stop being part of the conversation. But it can take one great project to turn things around. All you need is one hit or one great idea well-executed, and everybody's talking about you again.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Success, Fall, Talking

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• No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Listening, Next

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• We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts based on poverty, discrimination and exclusion (social, economic and political) that continue to plague humanity and destroy decades of development efforts. The vicious circle of human rights violations that lead to conflicts-which in turn lead to more violations-must be broken. I believe we can break it only by ensuring respect for all human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Believe, Rights, Circles

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