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Letter "C" » cycles
«Life: a cycle. A series of events, meetings, and departures. Friends discovered, others lost, Precious time, wastes away. Big droplet tears are shed for yesterday, but are dried in time for tomorrow, until all that remain are foggy, broken memories of a happy yesteryear.»
Author: Daniela Gallo
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
breaking away,
break away,
cycle,
cycles,
cycle on,
cycling,
departures,
discovered,
dried,
droplet,
droplets,
foggy,
in time,
meetings,
series,
shed,
wastes,
wasting away,
yesteryear
«There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.»
Author: Guru Nanak
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Spiritual leader)
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Keywords:
ages,
births,
commenced,
commences,
Creator,
cycle,
cycles,
cycle on,
cycling,
dies,
fears,
God of death,
guru,
gurus,
illuminate,
illuminated,
illuminating,
in the beginning,
name,
realized
«There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
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Keywords:
asserted,
asserts,
Chaos,
cycle,
cycles,
cycle on,
cycling,
evening star,
mistaking,
motives,
movement,
seasons,
stance,
The Movement,
The Seasons,
turning
«Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.»
«If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside»
Author: Robert Cringely
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About:
Automobiles,
Computers,
Evolution
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Keywords:
automobiles,
a million,
computer,
cost,
cycle,
cycles,
cycle on,
cycling,
development,
explode,
explodes,
exploding,
followed,
gallon,
gallons,
killing,
miles,
miles per gallon,
million,
PER,
per year,
rolls,
Rolls Royce,
roll over,
roll up
«Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine»
«If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(
Activist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
behave,
cycle,
cycles,
cycle on,
cycling,
emotional,
female,
hormone,
hormones,
level,
logical,
low-level,
lowest,
month,
rational,
supposed
«Events tend to recur in cycles...»
«My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.»
«Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there?s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(
Writer)
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About:
Evolution,
Humor
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Keywords:
backbone,
cases,
cosmos,
cycles,
evolving,
fiber,
fibers,
frustrates,
frustrating,
go along,
intended,
millions,
mysterious,
organic,
trial,
trial and error,
tune