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• I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Inspiration, Humor, People

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• Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

  James Thurber

  Travel, Airplane, Men

  James Thurber (1956). “Further fables for our time”

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• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.

  Kiana Tom

  Years, Together, Cameras

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• A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

  Mark Twain

  Leadership, Time, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

  Camilo Villegas

  Decision, Special, Finals

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• Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

  Murray Walker

  Degrees, Way, Failing

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• The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

  Vera Wang

  Athlete, Years, Important

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• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  Florence Welch

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fashion, War, Eye

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• I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Women, Infancy Is

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Silence, Feelings, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.92, Booklassic

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• A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Quality, Literature

  1925 The Common Reader, 'The Modern Essay'.

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• Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

  William Wordsworth

  Sports, Retirement, Golf

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 4, l. 376

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• Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Bags, Littles

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Finals, May, Firsts

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• I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

  Caitlin Moran

  Baby, Bird, Puffins

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• To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

  Ken Follett

  Color, Church, Sun

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.894, Penguin

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• And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Lasts, Beast, Hours

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

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• And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Men, Law

  Sir Winston Churchill, Timothy Baker (1968). “The island race”

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• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

  Douglas Adams

  Alcohol, Brain, Gold

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

  Christopher Morley

  Everlasting, Fascinating, Corners

  Christopher Morley, Ken Kalfus, Walter Jack Duncan (1990). “Christopher Morley's Philadelphia”, p.3, Fordham Univ Press

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• I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Song, Blessed, Tunnels

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