"Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune."
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"The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself."
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"Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel."
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"Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent."
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"Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned."
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"The wheel weaves as the wheel wills"
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"Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started."
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"The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour."
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"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move."
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"Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world."
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"A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism."
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"The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'"
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"Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again."
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"Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again."
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"Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand"
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"Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty."
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"I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung."
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"It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity."
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"The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life."
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"The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work."
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