"She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness……" — Henry James

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• The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self,… — Arthur E. Powell
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• Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that… — James Surowiecki
• History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires. — Unknown Author
• I do abs every day: regular, weighted crunches and sit-ups every other day, then my obliques and my sides on… — Christopher Gorham
• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating… — Brenda Ueland
• The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze,… — Marianne Moore
• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved… — William Styron
• Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world… — R. Buckminster Fuller
• Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous .… — Thomas A. Edison
• Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being… — William Ewart Napier
• Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes… — Dave Barry

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