
We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held
In Midnight by the Master of the Show
-- Omar Khayyam, Verse 68
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...Action...Noise...Observation...Self-inquiry...Reflection...Meditation...Choice...Decision..Action...

(Adapted from Karl Marx, EPM 1844)