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John Lennon Musician, Activist
Circles

"Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway."

Mean Music Circles
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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time."

Needs Circles Survivor
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Barack Obama Politician
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"The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has not been the fact of Russian hacking. The cyber world is full of information gathering, you know, propaganda, et cetera. I have been concerned about the degree to which, in some circles, you've seen people suggest that Vladimir Putin has more credibility than the U.S. government. I think that's something new."

Thinking Government Circles
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Eva Green Actress
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"I don't wear base, as I don't like to cover up my freckles, but I couldn't live without YSL Touche Eclat for hiding my under-eye circles. I love the smoky-eye look, so I use Dior's 5-Colour Eyeshadow in Night Dust and lashings of mascara. I finish with a dash of bronzer for a healthy glow."

Eye Night Circles
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Baruch Spinoza Philosopher, Rationalist
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"I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God."

Believe Atheism Circles
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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
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"I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do."

People Home Circles
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Alfred Adler Psychologist
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"If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles."

Children Two Circles
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes."

Spiritual Food Circles
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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently."

Ignorance Drawing Circles
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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old."

Years Tree Circles
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside."

White Moon Circles
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end."

Eye Nature Circles
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage)."

Men Practice Circles
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Jim Morrison Musician, Poet
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"Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight."

Eye Bird Circles
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness."

Dream Views Circles
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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth."

Eye Heaven Circles
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