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• Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

  Katherine Paterson

  Way, Kickers, Natural

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• I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Writing, Novelists

  "Interview with George R.R. Martin at Comicon". GeeksOn podcast (Episode 54), www.geekson.com. August 4, 2006.

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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Air, Blood, Years

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• As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do about this? We’re going to go eat pizza.' We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball. In a way, it was my decision not to starve myself that turned me into a supermodel, and later on, a businesswoman.

  Tyra Banks

  Mom, Curves, Decision

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• With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

  Edward Bellamy

  Summer, Eye, Dark

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.187, Applewood Books

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• The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Successful, Way, Life Is

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• Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Failure, Way

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• A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

  Chuck Mangione

  Beautiful, Mistake, Passion

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• I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Responsibility, Winning, Lessons

  "The Truth of Poetry". Book by Michael Hamburger, 1969.

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• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.

  Philip Larkin

  Art, Suicidal, Thinking

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

  Charles Wright

  Summer, Fall

  Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Lying, Mad, Never Lie

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Rest Of Your Life, Remember

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.67, Scholastic UK

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• Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

  Willa Cather

  Father, Home, Men

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.159, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Mean, Love Is, Radio

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• If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

  James C. Collins

  Running, Business, Organization

  "Good to Great". Fast Company Interview, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2001.

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• A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Business, Heart

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• Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

  George Gissing

  Time, Money, Time Is Money

  "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Winter, § 24, p. 287, 1903.

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• Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Teamwork, People

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• Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young manhood he thought "science was more important than either man or God," and that "without a highly developed science modern man lacks the power to survive," . . . went to Germany after the war to see what Allied bombing had done to the Germans, who had been leaders in science. There, he says, "I learned that if his civilization is to continue, modern man must direct the material power of his science by the spiritual truths of his God."

  Marion G. Romney

  Spiritual, War, Learning

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• I'm perpetually single. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I like to do things that glorify being alone. I buy a candle that smells pretty, turn down the lights, and make a playlist of low-key songs. If you don't act like you've been hit by the plague when you're alone on a Friday night, and just see it as a chance to have fun by yourself, it's not a bad day.

  Taylor Swift

  Friday, Song, Lonely

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• I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there's just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way we look. You just turn on the TV or flip open a magazine and there's people who don't look like any of us. I think this movie is like, finally, a celebration of reality and of our imperfections. We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's OK, because some of us like to eat!

  America Ferrera

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, May, Matter

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• Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.

  Katie Holmes

  Break Up, Breakup, Viewers

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