"I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn."
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"You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable."
"As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker."
"If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it."
"Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction."
"Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes."
"Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation"
"Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers."
"To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest."
"The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part."
"I turn the good parts up and the bad parts down"
"Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be."
"How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us."
"I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made."
"I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am."
"I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality."
"Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy."
"If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide."
"Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper."
"when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner."