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• BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE.... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Hands, Mind

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• It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Way, Graduates, States

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• We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Children, Race, America

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• And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

  Black Elk

  Native American, People, Sacred

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

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• Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

  Shari Arison

  Impact, World, Doing Good

  "Activate Your Goodness" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.

  Luke Scott

  Running, Country, Integrity

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• It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

  Paul Auster

  Jobs, Break Through, Paper

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

  John Millington Synge

  Sight, Fog, Firsts

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

  Adam Sandler

  Character, Play, People

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• Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Science, Omnipotence

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works”, p.726

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• The limited circle is pure.

  Franz Kafka

  Hilarious, Pure

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

  Ron Chernow

  Successful, Past, Average

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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• I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Kids, Eye, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• Circles in water as they wider flow
  The less conspicuous in their progress grow,
  And when at last they trench upon the shore,
  Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.

  George Crabbe

  Views, Water, Progress

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• Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

  Francis Cabot Lowell

  Flower, Garden, Wheels

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• It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Education, Math, Squares

  "A Budget of Paradoxes".

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• Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

  Sally Quinn

  Administration, Wagons, Sour

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• I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

  Paula Danziger

  People, Want, Next

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• For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

  David Antin

  Song, Corny, Century

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• I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Sides

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.404, Library of America

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• People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Couple, Law, People

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• I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

  Jonathan Swift

  World, Down And, Leisure

  Jonathan Swift (1823). “The select works of Jonathan Swift ...: containing the whole of his poetical works ... embellished with engravings”, p.237

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