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• Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Moving, Self, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “Lives”, p.531

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• The knockouts did not change me as a fighter. I was more of a boxer as a heavyweight. The problem was when I came back to light heavyweight, I lost all of the muscle and I lost all of the energy. I was going for the knockout because I didn't want to go the whole 12 rounds because my body was tired. I couldn't understand why my body was tired and it didn't dawn on me until now.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Tired, Light

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• I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Cutting, Wind

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• Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Kings, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama

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• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Self

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• The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Squares, Boards

  Quoted by "Punch"; reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!

  John Henry Jowett

  God, Children, Fall

  John Henry Jowett (0101). “My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year”, p.363, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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• Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

  Rajneesh

  Growing Up, Light, Years

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• I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

  Hugo Pratt

  Memories, People, Born

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• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  Iris DeMent

  Memories, Long, Way

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• I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Fashion, Prayer

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Golf

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• Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Fighting, Night

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• Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

  Adrien Broner

  Sports, Motivation, Years

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• After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.

  Alexander Khalifman

  Player, Thinking, People

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• They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

  James M. Barrie

  Air, Mushrooms, People

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• I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Cat, Parenting

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

  Ray Floyd

  Monday, Golf, Practice

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• He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Three, Legs

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• Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.... The two propositions: "The earth turns round" and "it is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round" have the same meaning; there is nothing more in the one than in the other.

  Henri Poincare

  Moving, Math, Two

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• I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

  Eminem

  Wish, World, Let Me

  Song: As the World Turns

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• Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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