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• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Thinking, Romance

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• The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.

  Azim Premji

  Powerful, Important, Tools

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• Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

  Susan Orlean

  Feelings, Earth, Corny

  "Seasonal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

  Diane Kruger

  Paris, Hiking, Hills

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• It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dumb, Luck

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  Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

  Rashida Jones

  People, Priorities, Different

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• We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

  Wolfman Jack

  People, Feel Good, Earth

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• It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

  Eric Ries

  Moving, Matter, Ifs

  "Startups: Winter Is Coming" by Eric Ries, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2011.

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• There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Events, This Generation

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  W. Clement Stone

  Events

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• 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?

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Emotional, Long

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.555, Open Road Media

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• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Learning, Past

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• My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

  Hope Solo

  Years, World, Four

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• Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

  Jill Scott

  Children, Cancer, Doctors

  "Jill Scott: 'I was told I'd never have kids - my son is due in 5 weeks'". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2009.

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• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

  George Santayana

  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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• I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

  Zoe Saldana

  Media, People, Political

  "Zoe Saldana: ‘There’s Just Not Enough Diversity On Magazine Covers’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

  Mickey Rourke

  Children, Father, Hate

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• The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

  David Icke

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Interview, metro.co.uk. July 16, 2002.

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• I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Children, Choices, Defeat

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 02, 2013

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• The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

  John Cornyn

  Home, Texas, Domestic Violence

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• There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.

  Leslie Orgel

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Agreement

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• The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

  Lewis Mumford

  Moon, Men, Discipline

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.372, Open Road Media

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• In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Religious, House, Feelings

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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