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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Circles

"Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people."

People Book Circles
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Pat Williams Sports Executive
Circles

"Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle."

Loss Baseball Circles
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Peter Heller Author
Circles

"She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose."

Earth Moon Circles
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Peter Watts Author
Circles

"Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway."

Perfect Circles Axes
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Circles

"I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else."

Art Book Circles
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Circles

"The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic."

Circles Revolution Social
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Circles

"People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage."

Law Couple Circles
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Circles

"Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles."

Men Wish Circles
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Circles

"The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre."

Lying Goal Circles
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Ben Marcus Author
Circles

"To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood."

People Circles Misunderstood
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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
Circles

"As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight."

Sight Circles Squares
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Circles

"I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi."

People Running Circles
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"It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right."

Pieces Circles Common Experience
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Bob Frank Musician
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"There's no indication that middle-income families feel resentful about the bigger mansions and yachts. But the near-rich, whose social circles intersect those of the rich, are subtly influenced by them."

Circles Rich Income
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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist
Circles

"Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days, but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze."

Inspirational Circles Shining
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Circles

"We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace."

Animal Compassion Circles
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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist
Circles

"This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven."

Heaven Circles Other Worlds
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Ashley Cole Footballer
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"My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man"

Men Names Circles
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