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• The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle is cleverly constructed.

  Richard Digance

  Science, Two Sides, Triangles

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• Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

  Mason Cooley

  White, Color, Dancing

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• When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.

  Cliff Sloan

  Perseverance, Men, Temptation

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• Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Air, Pillars, Heroism

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Games, Chess Game

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• I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?

  Stanley Baldwin

  Party, Men, Years

  Speech on BBC radio on the General Strike on May 08, 1926. "Baldwin: A Biography". Book by Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, p. 415, 1969.

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  Ma Jian

  Book, Years, Research

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

  Stephen Hadley

  Democracy, Tahrir Square, Revolution

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• If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? ... Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Summer, Children, Stupid

  "Right-Wing Media Aren't Concerned About Helping The Poor, But They Sure Want To Help The Rich" by Mike Burns, www.mediamatters.org. February 7, 2012.

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• Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer

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• If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Healing, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

  Sheryl Crow

  Sitting, Paper, Toilets

  "Singer's toilet paper musings leave Rove untouched" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.

  Natan Sharansky

  Simple, Views, Liberty

  Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer (2009). “The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror”, p.48, PublicAffairs

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• Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

  Nick Murray

  Long, Historical, Records

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• The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'

  Drake

  Sex, Humble, Roots

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• I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

  Brie Larson

  Mom, Home, Rebellious

  "Brie Larson Interview UNITED STATES OF TARA and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Thinking, Practice

  "Art as a Continuum. Nancy Spero". ART21 Interview, art21.org.

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• I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

  Freema Agyeman

  People, Knows, Factors

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• Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Meals, Able, Midas

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• Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Roots, Evil, Irrationality

  "Irrationality is the Square Root of All Evil". Scientific American, 249 (3), September 1983.

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• We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

  Ken Blackwell

  Ohio, Geography, Miles

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.

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• You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

  Mark Z. Jacobson

  Wind, Three, Footprint

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• No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Athlete, Player

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage

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• Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Needs

  William F. Buckley, Jr., Patricia Bozell (2014). “Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist”, p.183, Basic Books

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• I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Play, Almighty

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