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• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Technology, Wheels, Losing

  1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

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• Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.

  Christina Baldwin

  Two Sides, Joy, Promise

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.

  Ulrich Walter

  Baby, Zero, Moving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

  Joko Beck

  Dream, Memories, Future

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• If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Wheels, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.

  Harry Chapin

  Years, Circles, Seasons

  Song: Circle

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• It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.

  Terry Pratchett

  Research, Pages, Stuff

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Poverty, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding. When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Gun, Circles, Air

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.538, CUP Archive

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• Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Sweet, Rest In Peace

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• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Spring, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.419

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• The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.

  Ruben Martinez

  Crush, Crazy, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Joy, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

  Robin Morgan

  Taken, What Matters, Inward

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• Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007). “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation”, p.7, Random House

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• The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Wheels, Consciousness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.194, Vintage

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• The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

  Ted Leo

  Loss, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you love to read. The Anatomy Lesson is just such a novel. In stunning prose, Nina Siegal animates Rembrandt's first masterpiece, spinning a deeply affecting tale of love, loss and redemption as she reveals the secrets of the human soul. It is a gorgeous literary page turner of immense sympathy and elegance, equal in artistic lan to its inspiration. Brava!

  Robin Oliveira

  Inspiration, Loss, Soul

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• In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one can actually name one single paper with empirical evidence that shows carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of global warming.

  Joanne Nova

  Names, People, Support

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• To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

  Kate Millett

  Rebel, Way, Wheels

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• Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Crash, Fortune

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• It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

  Paul Newman

  Running, Satisfaction, Wheels

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• I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dream, Party, Political

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• There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Different, Our Family, Connecting

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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