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  • Boris Kodjoe Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Jeremy Collier Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Carrie Fisher Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Fear's a powerful thing
    It'll turn your heart black you can trust
    It'll take your God filled soul
    Fill it with devils and dust.
    Devils & Dust (2005) Devils & Dust
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Jane Austen For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Baba Kalyani From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • George Canning Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Bono God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Sam Ewing Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
    Sam Ewing
    American baseball player (1949 - )
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  • William Congreve Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Buddha His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Earl Warren I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Omar N. Bradley I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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