"The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul."
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"The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel."
"Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience."
"The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel."
"Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful."
"The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels."
"Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel."
"And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire."
"As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births."
"It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!"
"I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good."
"Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge."
"I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out."