"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."
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"I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people."
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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle."
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"No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are."
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"Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite."
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"Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like."
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"Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises."
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"A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water."
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"I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle."
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"The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn."
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"Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion."
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"Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is."
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"Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings us unto the point of back-returning."
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"Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions."
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"Don't disarrange my circles!"
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"If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do."
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"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
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"There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?"
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"We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle."
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"Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed."
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