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• In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.

  Sun Tzu

  Battle, Troops, Defeated

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• There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

  Al Franken

  People, Voters, Way

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• I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

  Ben Okri

  Writing, Past, Way

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• She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Numbers

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• They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Hands, Broken

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  War, Knowing, Vicious

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• Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate, they have become a melody, a harmony. It is the greatest music possible, all other musics are just faint things compared to it, shadow things compared to it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

  Franny Billingsley

  Mean, Tails, Eating

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.5, A&C Black

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• He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

  Terry Pratchett

  Enemy, Moved On, Centre

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• Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

  Danny Kaye

  Love, Heart, Forever

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• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Curves, Class

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• Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Pain, People, Forever

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• I survive at the edge of friends circles.

  Holly Black

  Edges

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Taken, Full Circle, Unbroken

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• Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Pain, Evil, Casts

  Yasmine Galenorn (2011). “Blood Wyne: An Otherworld Novel”, p.77, Penguin

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• No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, Dying, Alive

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 20, 2011

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• A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  People, Goal, Waiting

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• So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Sweet, Easter, Children

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• The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Views

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Light

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• I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.

  Justin Kirk

  Silly, Play, Sound

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• Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

  Bob Goff

  Grace, Draws

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Aug 07, 2014

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• Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Nature, Stars, Fire

  'The Starlight Night' (written 1877)

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• Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles... The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.

  John Neihardt

  Stars, Native American, Moon

  "Black Elk Speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux" by John Neihardt, (Ch. 17), 1961.

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