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• ...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

  Minor White

  Children, Mean, Eye

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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

  Ashley Cole

  Men, Names, Silence

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• Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is one of the things that constructs us, one of our constants. But it is not what people believe. I should like to close this circle by turning over in my bed and scrutinizing the stars.

  Philippe Starck

  Dream, Stars, Believe

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• Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.

  Max Lucado

  Love, Christian, Should Have

  Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk With the Savior”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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.

  Isaac Newton

  Math, Doe, Lines

  Isaac Newton (1966). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

  Lanford Wilson

  Hate, Drama, Writing

  "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.

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• There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

  Aristotle

  Math, Strange

  Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.2254, Princeton University Press

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• They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Flower, Eye

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes within the circle of monks, i think they might also be of use in our households and in our society.The first practice is Face-to-Face-Sitting.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Thinking, Years

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  Catherine Webb

  Cutting, Mushrooms, White

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• A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that goes in circles. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

  Marabel Morgan

  Leadership, Sports, Persistence

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Goal, Transition

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.

  Peter Tosh

  Beautiful, Brother, Flower

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• I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.

  Charles Duke

  Ocean, Clouds, Sight

  "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.

  Elliott Smith

  Beautiful, Real, Thinking

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• The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

  Karl Marx

  Understanding, Details, Credit

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• Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

  Hunter Hayes

  Song, People, Singing

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• I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Hate, Thinking, Bells

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• The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Tasks, Firsts, Magician

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Where you live matters: there’s only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.

  Drew Houston

  Inspirational, Hero, People

  Drew Houston's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 7, 2013.

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• In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Moon, Journey, Space

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• If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.

  Shannon Leto

  Running, Moving, If You Love Someone

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• It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

  Paul Harvey

  Self, Hands, Pockets

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• Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophy, Church, World

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1801). “The Spectator”, p.183

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• I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sea, Water, Wave

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