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• Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Fun, Silly, Long

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• We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, House

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• There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Atheism, Missionary

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sleep is for squares.

  Henry Rollins

  Sleep

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• "I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Dog, Eye

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• But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

  William Wordsworth

  Splits, Intellect, Provinces

  William Wordsworth (1970). “The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Men, Giving, Feelings

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• We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, People, Giving

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.59, Cornell University Press

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• A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

  David Lee

  Mean, Band, Use

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• I should be able to express moral views on social issues without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach ‘tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Views, Issues

  "Kirk Cameron Says He Is a Victim of 'Hate Speech' and 'Slander' After He Calls Homosexuality 'Unnatural, Detrimental and Destructive' on National TV". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 07, 2012.

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• At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

  Gary Oldman

  School, Kids, Acting

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• I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

  John Waters

  War, Film Critics, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

  Cat Deeley

  School, Lucky, Exam

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• I was very studious and square in college.

  Vera Farmiga

  College, Studious

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

  Steve Martin

  Doe, Done, Action

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  Pal Benko

  Kings, Pieces, Chess

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• Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

  Ethel Merman

  Past, Years

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

  Alex Cox

  Littles, Language, Playwright

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• My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

  James Ellroy

  Sexy, Mother, Father

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

  Anne Rice

  Dropping Acid, Smoking, Grass

  "Other Incarnations Of the Vampire Author". Interview with Stewart Kellerman, www.nytimes.com. November 7, 1988.

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• The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

  Thomas Malthus

  Distance, Moon, Ratios

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.111, eKitap Projesi

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• The wheels of justice - they're square wheels.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Justice, Wheels

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• People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

  J.R. Ward

  People, Fit, Holes

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.274, Penguin

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• Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped Pajamas

  John Boyne

  Girl, Football, Children

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• Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Home, Circles

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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