"My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these."
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"The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj."
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"Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength."
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"You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right."
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"Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid."
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"One must be brave if one is to take the wheel."
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"The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south."
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"Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn."
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"The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy."
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"History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again."
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"Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens."
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"Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough."
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"The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so."
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"Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982"
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"Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas."
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"At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers."
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"The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels."
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"I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!"
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"When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre"
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"I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels."
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