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• To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

  Gloria Steinem

  Success, Full Circle, Linear

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• We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust...
  The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

  Rumi

  Stars, Dust, Middle

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• As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Book, Men, Appreciate

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• Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ideas, People, Awareness

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Philosophy, Want, Steps

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• I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.

  Jack White

  School, Kids, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Community, World

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

  David Amram

  Atmosphere, Traveled, Wide

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• The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Realizing, Turns, Knows

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• The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Soul

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.182, Penguin

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• The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.

  Alexander Calder

  Clouds, Air, Space

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

  David Hilbert

  Sad, Zero, Men

  "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.

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• The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Zero, Views

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• The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

  John Hartford

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Spirals, Rhythm

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  Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Life, Patience, Nature

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Ocean, House, World

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

  Pablo Picasso

  Sea, Perfect, Owl

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• A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Beautiful, Perfect, May

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 119, 1922.

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• Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

  Freya Stark

  Race, Soul, Unity

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• Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Voice, Space, People

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

  Anna Freud

  Want, Matter

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• If you have form'd a circle to go into,
  Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
  
  They said this mystery never shall cease:
  The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

  William Blake

  War, Soldier, Mystery

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.151, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pronouns, Wells, Humans

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

  Robert Frost

  Moving, Style, Mind

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• The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moon, Perfect, Water

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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