Circles Quotes - Page 15

• Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Luxury, Stills

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.118, Bantam Classics

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• At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Country, Struggle, Dark

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• Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mother, Dream, Struggle

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• The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

  Ameen Rihani

  Religious, Helping, Infidel

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• Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Law, Mentor, President

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• The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Ideas, Needs

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• This...Godless society operates in an extremely efficient manner at least in its higher levels of leadership...It follows a perfectly mapped out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the field of mass communications; press, cinema, radio and television.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Communication, Organization, Cinema

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• I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.

  Spencer Pratt

  Games, Interesting, Hip Hop

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

  Gloria Steinem

  Masculine And Feminine, Ideas, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Land, Miracle

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

  Tommy Franks

  Military, Guy, Reputation

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• The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle.

  Terrell Owens

  People, Matter

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• As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Couple, Book

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• The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.

  Ruben Martinez

  Crush, Crazy, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

  Gloria Steinem

  Crazy, Animal, Talking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Ties, Hip Hop

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• I run around in circles, professionally.

  Nick Symmonds

  Running

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• The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Mind, Openness

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• There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.

  Alice Nutter

  Fighting, Squares, Government

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• Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

  Andrew Plotkin

  Lying, Party, Simple

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• It is our human need - to circle back to the station of our sorrow.

  Michael Hainey

  Sorrow, Needs, Humans

  Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Differences, Doe

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.423

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• There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

  Andrew Solomon

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

  William Wallace

  Incompetence

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• Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,--be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!

  Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

  Wise, Dark, Make Happy

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