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«Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | About: Logic, Nature | Keywords: acknowledge, crushed, wheel
«In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.»
«Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever»
«His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust»
«Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.»
«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.»
«It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.»
«It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease»
«In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.»
«My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.»

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