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We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan

Safety, Dependence, Net

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
Thomas Sowell

Mean, Around, American

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron

Mind, Point, Taking

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
Robert Brault

Lost, Took, Advantage

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Miriam Makeba

Age, Cannot, Getting

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
Harvey Fierstein

Time, Good, Help

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
Johnny Cash

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.
Harvey Fierstein

Smart, Anyone, Yesterday

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!
Robert Orben

Love, Great, Girl

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon

Rather, Heaven, Catholic

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.
Justin Bieber

Best, Friends, Rough

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling

Heart, Long, Nothing

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren

Sports, Nothing, Front

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Character, Poor, Values

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden

Love, Great, Death

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
Robert Plant

Time, Power, Smile

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong

Life, Change, Fear

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones

Good, May, Wrong

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn

Men, Live, True

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale

Dark, Light, Learn

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Bad, Habits, Sins

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells

Nature, Him, Child

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik

Beauty, Game, Control

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
Bill Watterson

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller

Learning, Person, Words

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

Love, Angry, Allah

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
Sacha Guitry

Best, Beautiful, Woman

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
Simone Weil

Culture, Teachers, Instrument

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day

Give, Ourselves, Second

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Angry, Young, Old

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