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Somebody wrote:  (took this from somebody's answer to below statement)
> 
> > No.  Equillibrium is a dynamic state.  For example, we take in air,
> >water, and nutrients, which become components of our bodies, which
> >give off waste products.  That is equillibrium.  The body stays the
> >same, more or less, but the actual materials move through the system.
> 

You are confusing 'Steady-State', roughly the thing you describe, and
Thermodynamic Equilibrium.
If you have a system where there is an equilibrium between the ingoing
and outgoing rate of substance or energy, then you have a
'steady-state'; if you mix two solutions in a beaker, but then add
nothing or take nothing from it and just wait till the system stops
changing, then you have a 'thermodynamic equlibrium'. (I know, this is a
very simplified explanartion.) 

A charachteristic of life is its ability to sustain a 'steady-state'.

Cheers, 

Achim
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