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• Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

  Henry R. Luce

  Discovery, Poet, Easier

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• It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Jobs, Gold, Emotion

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• The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Wall, Weather, Air

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• This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

  Frances E. Willard

  Moving, Law, Progress

  Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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• Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Grateful, Book, Thinking

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• Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter anymore. He will move heaven and earth to find a worshiper. When you begin to worship with all your being and desire, your heart turns Him toward you. You capture His attention and attracts His affection.

  Tommy Tenney

  God, Spiritual, Moving

  Tommy Tenney (2002). “The God Catchers: Experiencing the Manifest Presence of God”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

  Anthony Swofford

  War, Believe, Son

  Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

  Pierre Charron

  Children, Revenge, Fire

  "Treasury of Thought: Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors". Book edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 123, 1894.

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• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  Zebulon Pike

  Father, War, Demise

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Decisions We Make, Choices, Stakes

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• Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

  Michka Assayas

  Jobs, Looks, Life Is

  Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.145, Penguin

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• Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

  Leila Aboulela

  Light, Practice, Giving

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• It's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is more miserable than himself. That's why so much animosity exists on the Internet. Those who aren't able to find a more miserable person turn to the Internet and call other people losers, even though they've never met just to make themselves superior. Isn't that pathetic? There's a sense of security that comes from speaking badly of someone else. But that isn't true salvation.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  People, Miserable Person, Loser

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• Revival begins in the individual's heart. Let it begin with you on your face alone before God. Turn from every sin that might hinder. Renew yourself to a new devotion to the Savior.

  Lee Roberson

  Heart, Might, Faces

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• When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Suffering, Steps, Goodbye Love

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• The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on God in the thick of the fight. It comes to the one who tarries for the vision in faith. It comes to the one who believes that he who waits upon the Lord shall never be confounded. It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him. It is faith which turns distress into singing.

  Alan Redpath

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  "The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David".

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• When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

  Missy Elliot

  People, Want, Radio

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• Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

  Merle Shain

  Mean, Loving Someone, Different

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

  Nia Vardalos

  Men, May, Way

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• Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

  Nia Vardalos

  Scabs, Mark

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• Einstein said that time is like a river, it flows in bends.
  If we could only step back around the turns,
  we could travel in either direction.
  I'm sure it's possible. When I die,
  I'm going right back to the 1830s.
  I'm not even afraid of dying.
  I think it must be quite exciting.

  Tasha Tudor

  Thinking, Rivers, Dying

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• We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

  Candace Cameron

  Friday, Sunday, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  Walter Lang

  People, Evil, World

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• The important thing
  is to pull yourself up by your own hair
  to turn yourself inside out
  and see the whole world with fresh eyes.

  Peter Weiss

  Eye, Hair, Important

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.58, A&C Black

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