"If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life."
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"O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted."
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"Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop."
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"Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self."
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"I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled."
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"I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know."
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"Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid."
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"This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature."
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"History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away."
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"I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings."
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"I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again."
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"Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly."
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"If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time."
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"How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?"
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"When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something."
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"Joy and sadness come by turns."
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"Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn."
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"Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much."
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"I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off."
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"It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith."
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