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The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Empedocles
God
Nature
Circle
Everywhere
Circumference
Center
Which
Nowhere
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
Margaret Atwood
You
Yourself
Pedestal
Type
Circumference
Put
Like
Supposed
Around
Limited
Person
Behave
Move
Room
Much
Actually
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
Laura Riding
Circle
Criticism
Live
Draw
Circumference
Ourselves
Out
Spiders
Like
Hollow
Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion.
Frans de Waal
Fashion
Emotions
Compassion
Perception
Animals
Tree
Way
Circumference
Totally
Objective
Similar
Study
Supposed
Devoid
Rock
Scientists
Trunk
Movement
Depicting
Interfere
Measure
Assessment