#circular

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#compulsive #different #different ways #dwell #figure

My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out. ↗

— Steven Wright

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Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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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 the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ↗

— 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 the more you feel like giving. ↗

— Penelope Leach

#business #circular #feedback #feel #get

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance. ↗

— Larry Page

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I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities. ↗

— Alice Walton

#balance #bones #brains #breeding #circular

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 to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

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