Circular Quotes
80 quotes by 75 authors
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at…
— Saint Augustine
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I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order…
— Toni Cade Bambara
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to…
— Alister E. McGrath
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular…
— Walter Raleigh
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The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course,…
— Paul Newman
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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast…
— Saint Augustine
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Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get…
— Penelope Leach
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... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against the…
— Theodore Wilbur Anderson
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
— William Zinsser
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Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a…
— Zhuangzi
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The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,…
— Jeanette Winterson
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To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of…
— Cornelius Van Til
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Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was…
— Matt Damon
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My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your…
— Melissa Gilbert
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently…
— Baruch Spinoza
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After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.
— Leonhard Euler
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If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of…
— Murray Bookchin
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Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite…
— Aristotle
Who Wrote These Circular Quotes
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