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• The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

  Clarice Lispector

  Fate, Destiny, Choices

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• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Time, Memories, Butterfly

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Scary, Sound, Roaring

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Makeup, Years, Shoes

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• The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ignorance, Dust, Ideas

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft.

  Charles Yu

  Suicide, Running, Tired

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.9, Vintage

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• The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Generations, Next, Never Ending Cycle

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• The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Dark, Together

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

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• The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

  James Joyce

  Voice, Space, Silence

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• So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.

  Jon Stewart

  Rights, Long, Relief

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• The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Flower, Thinking, Mountain

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig (Chapter 1), March 13, 1974.

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• What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Animal, Mouths

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

  Alyson Noel

  Birth, Birth And Death

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• War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness

  Suheir Hammad

  Running, War, Light

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• Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Becoming, Normal, Life Is

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• This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight.

  Ian Mcewan

  Fall, Simple, Safety

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• If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Disappointment, Hard Work, Law

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• I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

  Ben Okri

  Writing, Past, Circles

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• To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Change, Spiritual

  John Henry Newman (1845). “An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine”, p.39, CreateSpace

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• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  Ralph Nader

  Years, People, Democracy

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

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• The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Track, Lessons

  "Elon Musk's mission to Mars". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  John Locke

  Business, Philosophy, War

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

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• Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Memories, Important

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.

  Carl Jung

  Mother, Father, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, What Matters, Doors

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