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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Family
Chinese Proverb

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The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
Jesus Christ
Clement of Alexandria

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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Opportunity
Jeremy Collier

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When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Character
Confucius

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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Anger
William Congreve

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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Leaders and Leadership
James Crook

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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Courage
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings

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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Gratitude
Demosthenes

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Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
Enemies
R A Dickson

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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Writers and Writing
J. P. Donleavy

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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.
World
Finley Peter Dunne

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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Rebellion
Lawrence Durrell

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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Confidence
Maria Edgeworth

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Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
Sarcasm
George Eliot

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Vanity
George Eliot

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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
Forgiveness
George Eliot

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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
Leaders and Leadership
Havelock Ellis

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You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
Choice
Jon English

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What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
Egotism
Epictetus

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Life and Living
Charles Feidelson

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We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
Equality
Geraldine Ferraro

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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Henry Fielding

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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
W. C. Fields

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
God
James Elroy Flecker

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Mistakes
Henry Ford

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun