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«As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.»
«...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...»
«We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust»
«Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
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consequence, drunkenness, intention, leisurely, philter, spinning
«When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise?»
«Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.»
«I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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arrests, consumption, gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, restoration, spinning, spinning wheel, The Restoration, The wheel, wheel
«All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work alone is noble»
«We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Fates, leaves, scar, smallest, spinning, spins, spin out, spun, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, undid, undoes, undone, vice
«Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Almost always, analysis, arrest, cut across, gas, get a look, headlong, introspective, rush, section, sections, seizing, spinning, spinning top, The Conclusion, turn up
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