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• If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Mind, Progress, Way

  Miyamoto Musashi (2010). “The Complete Book of Five Rings”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

  John Legend

  Ideas, People, Interesting

  "John Legend Has The Realest Advice For College Students". Interview with Deepa Lakshmin, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2015.

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• Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can "see" they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don't vibrate at a rate conducive to humanity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feelings, Humanity

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• Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a key, we have forgotten the importance of fallow time and winter and rests in music. We have abandoned a whole system of dealing with the neutral zone through ritual, and we have tried to deal with personal change as though it were a matter of some kind of readjustment.

  William Bridges

  Winter, Keys, Car

  William Bridges (1980). “Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes”, Da Capo Press

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• Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

  Andrew Wommack

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Andrew Wommack Ministries from Aug 11, 2016

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• Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Pain, Rain, Heart

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.134, eBookIt.com

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• R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel.

  Jan Burke

  Witty, Smart, Hero

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• In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fire, People, Different

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

  Alan Guth

  Thinking, Space, Substance

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• An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Beautiful, Girl, Couple

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• When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

  Bill Vaughan

  Psychology, Novelists, Fiction

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• Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.

  Vera Nazarian

  Profound, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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• I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.

  Rachel Gibson

  Knots, I Can

  Rachel Gibson (2008). “Lola Carlyle Reveals All”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

  Brent Weeks

  Writing, Surprising

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• Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on — can you hear me? Pass it on!

  Toni Morrison

  Brother, Kissing, Land

  "Song of Solomon". Book by Toni Morrison, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1977.

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• Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Addiction, Plot

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• I’m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there’s a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets.

  Graham Coxon

  Hair, Faces, Flaws

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• You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.

  William Cobbett

  Men, Rights, Long

  William Cobbett (2012). “A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland”, p.231, TAN Books

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• ...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them. Religious dogma and myth have been used very successfully either to suppress understanding or to twist the truth sufficiently to turn something positive into something negative.

  David Icke

  Religious, Understanding, Negative

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• The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.

  Robert Stawell Ball

  Moon, Seems

  Robert Stawell Ball (2010). “Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

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• Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, War, Sleep

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill, Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Curves, Development

  "Fortaelleren Asger Jorn" by Gunnar Jespersen, (p. 121), 1984.

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• America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.

  Dick Armey

  Christian, Independent, Government

  "Christians and Big Government - Why faith requires freedom". FreedomWorks (freedomworks.org), October 12, 2006.

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• That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Stories, Shapes

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2013

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