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As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.


Elisha Gray


#circles #commercial #creates #interest #limited

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.


Herbert Read


#choices #circles #community #integrity #peace

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” “Hmm . . . What do you think, Harry?” said Luna, looking thoughtful. “What? Isn’t there just a password?” “Oh no, you’ve got to answer a question,” said Luna. “What if you get it wrong?” “Well, you have to wait for somebody who gets it right,” said Luna. “That way you learn, you see?” “Yeah . . . Trouble is, we can’t really afford to wait for anyone else, Luna.” “No, I see what you mean,” said Luna seriously. “Well then, I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.” “Well reasoned,” said the voice, and the door swung open.


J.K. Rowling


#flame #luna-lovegood #phoenix #ravenclaw #riddles

Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone's sleeping


Chester Bennington


#walking-in-circles #dreams

Fashion goes round in circles.


Siobhan Fahey


#fashion #goes #round

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.


James Buchan


#bear #before #boom #bust #circles

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.


Robert Frost


#circles #forward #himself #how #indicates

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.


Audre Lorde


#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.


Ida Tarbell


#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.


Beverly Jones


#attained #benefit #circles #dog #elusive