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• The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Tyrants, Reign, Weak

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Aug 28, 2014

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• Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Winter, Thinking

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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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• Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lost Love, Loneliness, Grief

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• In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

  Paulo Coelho

  Victory, Movement, Defeat

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• The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Taken, Adventure

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• Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby. "Yes," Kai said, lifting a shrimp wonton between his chopsticks. "It falls on the ninth full moon if each year." "Ah, how lovely for you to base your holidays on the cycles of my planet." Kai wanted to scoff at the word planet but sucked it back down his throat.

  Marissa Meyer

  Fall, Holiday, Moon

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• What was funny, going to the gym, you see all these guys who are just massive. There's no way a person can naturally get that way. In the gym, you meet these guys and you talk to them, and everybody's really willing and open to explain to you what cycle they're on and to help you get on it.

  Anthony Mackie

  Guy, Way, Helping

  "How Anthony Mackie Got Big For 'Pain & Gain'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. April 27, 2013.

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• There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

  Steve Case

  People, Perception, Genius

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• The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.

  Seth Gabel

  Creativity, Perspective, Forever

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

  Michael Fassbender

  Addiction, Behaviour, Patterns

  "Shame - Michael Fassbender interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  Cara Buono

  Teacher, Yoga, Swim

  "Chat: Cara Buono". Interview with Toby Tanser, www.runnersworld.com. November 1, 2006.

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• We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Pulse, Gestures, Applause

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• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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• If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Culture, Alternatives, Stranger

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• There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Loss, Important, Remember

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• When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

  Dean Koontz

  Return, Failing, Desperation

  Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson (2007). “Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel”, p.422, Bantam

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• I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.

  Nathalie Handal

  Country, Children, Writing

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• Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

  Robert Mankoff

  Short Life, Fruit Flies, Cartoon

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• I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

  Jeff Cooper

  Writing, Thinking, Psychology

  Source: blog.traderslibrary.com

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• Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Queens, Noble, Lasts

  Ford Madox Ford (2011). “The Fifth Queen”, p.7, Vintage

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• Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

  Jamais Cascio

  Urbanization, Wind, Civilization

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• When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Girl, Common Sense, Moral

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• One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

  Matt Dillon

  Greatest Fear, Growth, Important

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• Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

  Charles Saatchi

  Swimming, Whales, People

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