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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
Posterity
George Ade

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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Appreciation
St. Ambrose

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Work
Maya Angelou

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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Service
Louis Auchincloss

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Neighbors
Jane Austen

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Equality
Honore De Balzac

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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Endurance
William Barclay

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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Hope
Bruce Barton

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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Dogs
Robert Benchley

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]
Anger
Bible

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Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. [Matthew 5:39]
Nonviolence
Bible

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
Honor
Nicholas Boileau

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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.
Hope
Hal Borland

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When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
Fantasy
Stewart Brand

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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Teachers and Teaching
Bertolt Brecht

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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Invention and Inventor
Bertolt Brecht

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Tyranny
Emily Bronte

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Wish and Wishing
Phillips Brooks

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Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.
Journalism and Journalists
Craig Brown

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If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
Dress
Beau Brummel

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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Fate
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Government
Edmund Burke

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Silence
Robert Burns

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Age and Aging
Eli Cass

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Books - Reading
Warren Chappell

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