"the wheel turns" meaning in English

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Proverb

Head templates: {{en-proverb}} the wheel turns
  1. Time moves forward; circumstances change; life continues.
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          "text": "You have to accept that a new world pushes out the old. The wheel turns."
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          "ref": "2011, Angela Greg, Murder in the Lane, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 25:",
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          "text": "Sherlock Holmes: There's going to be a bomb on a passenger jet. British and American governments know about it, but rather than expose the source of their information, they're going to let it happen. The plane will blow up. Coventry all over again. The wheel turns, nothing is ever new."
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