“ These I saw there, in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being built with an arched roof. ”
- Henry Hudson- Copy
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“ The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. ”
- Edward R. Murrow- Copy
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“ I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week. ”
- Gene Kelly- Copy
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“ I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated. ”
- John Carmack- Copy
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“ Towery city and branching between towers; cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded. ”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins- Copy
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“ Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. ”
- Charles A. Cerami- Copy
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“ But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed — a compass, not a weathercock. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ We can have rounded characters in SF if they are, when push comes to shove, representative when it comes to responding to their situations — thus Lije Baley in Asimov's The Caves of Steel is a representative of his enclosed metropolis, but he learns to rise above it, to understand his agoraphobia and cope with it. ”
- James Gunn- Copy
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“ I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts is one of the most I believe that as a part of the educational process, each child should have access to a music education program. That is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future. ”
- Rudy Giuliani- Copy
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“ I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices. ”
- David Cassidy- Copy
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“ No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ”
- Van Wyck Brooks- Copy
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“ If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what… ”
- Rev. Ivan Stang- Copy
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“ One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know… ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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