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  • George Orwell The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Caitlin Moran The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Nigel Farage The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.
    (2012)
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg The name of an iron man goes round the world.
    It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
    Washington Monument by Night in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The plum tree in the yard's so small
    It's hardly like a tree at all.
    Yet there it is, railed round
    To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more
    Though if it could it would for sure.
    There's nothing to be done
    It gets too little sun.
    Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Billy Gibbons The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Confucius The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ali Smith The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Robert Lynd There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Bernard Hill There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
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  • Paul Auster There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carl Honore Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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