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• There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Teacher, School, Mind

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• we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

  Milan Kundera

  Fall, Men, Drunk

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• The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stress, Integrity, Divorce

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.155, Harmony

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• There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Happiness, Quilts, Laughter

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• For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

  Anne Lamott

  Motivational, Book, Reading

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.15, Anchor

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• It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Circles, Ideas, People

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• Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Dark, House

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

  Abraham Kuyper

  Religious, Jesus, Sovereign

  Abraham Kuyper, James D. Bratt (1998). “Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader”, p.461, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Virginia, Goal

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.288, Univ of California Press

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• But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

  Cressida Cowell

  Holes, Square Pegs, Rounds

  "How to Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2005.

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• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Ignorance, Class

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

  Fred Astaire

  Fashion, Wall, Suits

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• Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening, so confront that. Look it square in the eye without flinching. When you are having a bad time, examine that experience, observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn its mechanics. The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built. You do this by taking the thing apart piece by piece. The trap can’t trap you if it has been taken to pieces. The result is freedom.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Taken, Eye, Buddhism

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cities, Together, Wish

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.72

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• But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Cutting, Rocks

  Song: Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

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• Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

  Joe Strummer

  Should Have, People, Greed

  "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2007.

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• Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.

  Colleen Hoover

  Love, Heart, Different

  Colleen Hoover (2014). “Ugly Love: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Kings, Men

  "Leith Anderson, Russell Moore, Other Faith Leaders Ask Obama to Reject Gov't Report Saying Religious Freedom Is Code for Discrimination" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. October 12, 2016.

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• The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

  Seth Godin

  Character, Mind, Changed

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• You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

  Steven Pressfield

  War, Artist, Vienna

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.23, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mistake, Yesterday, Trying

  "Malcolm Gladwell: 'No one thinks of me as a potential terrorist any more'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2014.

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• Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.

  Tommy Davidson

  Dancing, Black, Persons

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• We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

  Brian Andreas

  Stars, Science, Night

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• I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nature, Past, Cities

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy", p. 817, 1963.

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• I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

  Reggie McNeal

  Heart, People, Church

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