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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

– Henry David Thoreau

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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

– Logan Pearsall Smith

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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

– Jean Cocteau

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A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

– Robert Charles Benchley

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Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

– I Ching

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Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

– Marguerite de Valois

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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago

– Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.

– Helen Kromer

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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

– Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.

– Rig Veda

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Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness.

– Geoffrey Neighor

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ONE WHO WAITS There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by. ED Which one do you think it is ONE WHO WAITS Ah. I think that time is just time.

– Geoffrey Neighor

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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

– Real Live Preacher

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning.

– Sir Walter Raleigh

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the vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. see, talking is what I do... I t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. the idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it it'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. no churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode

– Andrew Schneider

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