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King Claudius: And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?

classic line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Sunday Morning - VII

Supple and turbulent, a ring of men
Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn
Their boisterous devotion to the sun,
Not as a god, but as a god might be,
Naked among them, like a savage source.
Their chant shall be a chant of paradise,
Out of their blood, returning to the sky;
And in their chant shall enter, voice by voice,
The windy lake wherein their lord delights,
The trees, like serafin, and echoing hills,
That choir among themselves long afterward.
They shall know well the heavenly fellowship
Of men that perish and of summer morn.
And whence they came and whither they shall go
The dew upon their feet shall manifest.

poem by Wallace Stevens
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The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

quote by William Westmoreland
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River in spate, hopes
Submerged, turbulent current;
Floodgates are open…

haiku by Mamta Agarwal
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Times

Turbulent times require my inspection,
To instruct and display mankind, every nation.

poem by Naveed Akram
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Turbulent Waters
Mountain trout in deep pools lurk
Casting line in search

haiku by Charles Garcia (2005)
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

quote by Mikhail Lermontov
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

quote by Robert Burns
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In the turbulent town of Chicago
lived the brother of Dr. Shivago.
He was taking a break
sailing Michigan Lake.
But he called it 'Chicago Lago'.

limerick by Herbert Nehrlich
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The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

quote by Charles E. Trevelyan
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