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The Turning Point
«The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.»
Author: Max Lerner
(Columnist, Politician)
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«After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts»
Author: Morris Mandel
| About:
Progress
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«Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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«The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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«The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.»
Author: Paul Theroux
(Novelist, Writer)
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«As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting / the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
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«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.»
Author: Lord Byron
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