Quotes with about-turn

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  • Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Pais A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
    Source: Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) p. 45
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Benazir Bhutto A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Brad Feld A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Barbara Kruger All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Billy Porter All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Arthur Cayley And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • James Elroy Flecker And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
    James Elroy Flecker
    English poet (1884 - 1915)
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  • Carl Sandburg And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Source: Chicago l. 10 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Samuel Beckett Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
    Source: Murphy
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Ben Nicholson Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Earl Nightingale Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Carl Sagan Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Malcolm X Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Robert Montgomery Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Octavio Paz Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Barton Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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