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• Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational Life, Ideas, Black History

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• The power of the world always works in circles.

  Black Elk

  Native American, World, Cherokee

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted

  Edwin Markham

  Love, Life, Peace

  Edwin Markham, “Epigrams”

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• Glory is like a circle in the water

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Dignity, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Truth, Wish

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• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Life, Peace

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1923.

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• The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Law, Triangles

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• Circles create soothing space.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Space, Soothing

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

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• The life of man is a self-evolving circle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

  Black Elk

  Moving, Native American, Childhood

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

  Ellen Terry

  Skills, Differences, Understanding

  Ellen Terry (Dame) (19??). “The story of my life”

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• The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

  Anish Kapoor

  Stories, Involvement, Viewers

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• I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Mind, Body, Rotation

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

  Kit Williams

  Dog, Rabbits, Looks

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• Conversation is a game of circles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Conversation

  'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Harvard University Press

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• The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

  T. S. Eliot

  Understanding, Areas

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

  Joni Mitchell

  Time, Games, Ponies

  Song: The Circle Game

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• When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Hope, Knowing

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

  Colley Cibber

  Marriage, Wedding, Lying

  'The Double Gallant' (1707) act 1, sc. 2

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• If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

  William Blake

  Ifs

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.633, Pearson Education

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• An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

  Albert Einstein

  Twists, Curls, Lines

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• There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.

  Keith Lehrer

  Exit, Belief, No Exit

  Keith Lehrer (1978). “Knowledge”, Oxford University Press

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• And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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