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Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.
George Steiner— "In a Post-Culture"
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.
sri aurobindo— Dedication page.
In a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights," the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.
david mitchell— "An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 303 (Nook Edition)
A central concern of macroeconomics is the upswings and downswings in the level of real output called the business cycle. The business cycle consists of alternating periods of economic growth and contraction. Business cycles are inherent in market economies.
Irvin Tucker— Macroeconomics for Today. (2008, p. 150)
India of the ages is not dead nor has She spoken Her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which She must seek now to awake , is not an Anglicized oriental people, docile people of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of Occident ’s success and failure , but still the ancient immemorial Shakti recovering Her deepest self, lifting Her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and Vaster form of Her Dharma .
— François Gautier, in Rewriting Indian History (2003), p.158
India of the ages is not dead nor has She spoken her last creative word ; She lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an Anglicized oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the Occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorial Shakti recovering Her deepest self, lifting Her head higher toward the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma .
— Sri Aurobindo, in the last issue of Arya: A Philosophical Review (January 1921), as quoted in The Modern Review, Vol. 29 (1921), p. 626
He his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.
john milton— 1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.76-84.
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably inthe circuits of a digital computeror thegears of a cycle transmission ashe does at thetop of a mountainor in the petals of a flower.
— 1974 Zen and theArt of Motorcycle Maintenance, pt.1, ch.1.
Ho! Mesmerized by the sheer variety of perceptions, beings wander endlessly astray in samsara's vicious cycle.
— As quoted on page 21 of The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying (2008) by Sogyal Rinpoche
The cycle of violence will continue far into the new millennium. Hopes for peace will probably not be realized, because the great that shape the international system fear each other and compete for power as a result. Indeed, their ultimate aim is to gain a position of dominant power over others, because having dominant power is the best means to ensure one's own survival.
john j. mearsheimer— Preface, p. xi
Some of these guys are so violent that it is hard for witnesses to come forward, and they get involved in repeat criminal activities, so it is unfortunate that they had to die, but it did kind of end the cycle that we were struggling with.
ray nagin— Discussing two brothers suspected in 14 murders who were found shot to death [10]
We are at the classic-romantic barrier now, where on one side we see a cycle as it appears immediately... and this is an important way of seeing it... and where on the other side we can begin to see it as a mechanic does in terms of underlying form... and this is an important way of seeing things too. These tools for example... this wrench... has a certain romantic beauty to it, but its purpose is always purely classical. It's designed to change the underlying form of the machine.
— Ch. 8 (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974))
I sing the cycle of my country's year,I sing the tillage, and the reaping sing,Classic monotony, that modes and warsLeave undisturbed, unbettered, for their bestWas born immediate, of expediency.
vita sackville-west— Winter, p. 1
Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.
sri sri ravi shankar— Interview with Forbes Magazine (2009)
[About the end of the The L Word] Everything has its cycle. I think it’s appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.
jennifer beals— YouTube video
Modern anthropology … opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.
john carroll— pp. 150-151
This essay treats the most celebrated story in the extreme simplification in an adult parasite - in the interests of illuminating, reconciling, and, perhaps, even resolving two major biases that have so hindered our understanding of natural history: the misequation of evolution with progress, and the undervaluing of an organism by considering only its adult form and not the entire life cycle.
stephen jay gould— Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 356
I think I have been perfectly clear in saying that I hope Canadians do elect a majority government. I think this cycle of election after election, minority after minority is beginning to put some of the country's interests in serious jeopardy.
stephen harper— 2011 English Language Leaders' Debate, April 12, 2011,
The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
john maynard keynes— Book 6, Chapter 22, Section 3, p. 322
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
camille paglia— p. 232 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))
Nuto, who had never really gone away, still wanted to understand the world and change it, and upset the cycle of the seasons. Or perhaps he didn't, and still believed only in the moon. But I, who didn't believe in the moon, knew that when all was said and done only the seasons matter and they are in your bones and they nurtured you when you were a boy.
cesare pavese— Chapter X, p. 60
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
— Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835, published 1842), Stanza 92.
Enterprise engineering is... the art of understanding , defining, specifying, analysing and implementing business processes for the enterprise entire life cycle, so that the enterprise can achieve its objectives, be cost-effective, and be more competitive in its market environment.
— François B. Vernadat. Enterprise Modeling and Integration: Principles and Applications. Chapman & Hall, London, 1996. p. 30; Cited in Enterprise Modeling and Integration: Principles and Applications Review by Florin-Gheorghe Filip, 1997
Moksha is not just freedom from the cycle of rebirths , as is often misunderstood.
— Gwilym Beckerlegge, in "World Religions Reader (2001)"
When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
— Nostradamus, in The Prophecies (1555), Q 48
However, a cosmological dimension is the necessary basis for this Buddhist salvation: in Buddhism salvation is not from sin as rebellion against God , but emancipation from the cycle of birth and death which is part of transience of the universe . This is the cosmological aspect of Buddhism. These two aspects are inseparable; the more cosmological the basis of salvation
— Masao Abe, in "Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and ... (1995)}, p.81
Ho! Mesmerized by the sheer variety of perceptions, beings wander endlessly astray in samsara's vicious cycle.
— As quoted on page 21 of The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying (2008) by Sogyal Rinpoche
The politics must take care that the energy revolution will include also the traffic sector. (Johannes Erhard, WWF) The cars will lose their share while bicycles and pedelec (from pedal electric cycle) will have a big future. Less noice, less exhaust gas and more space will make our lives much more worth.
— Johannes Erhard, WWF: "Die Politik muss nun dafür sorgen, dass die Energiewende auch im Verkehrssektor angepackt wird"
— Dietmar Oeliger, Traffic politics: "Das Auto wird dort an Bedeutung verlieren, während Fahrrad und Pedelec eine große Zukunft bevorsteht." Weniger Lärm, weniger Abgase und mehr Raum für die Menschen machten das Leben dort deutlich lebenswerter.
