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There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.