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"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere." »Voltaire
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"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." »Maya Angelou
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"There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be." »Lao Tzu
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"Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day." »Carmen Electra
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"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them." »Rudolf Virchow
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"The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying." »Edward Hoagland
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"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter
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"I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center." »Stephen Spender
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"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand." »Oprah Winfrey
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"We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »Orrin Hatch
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"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman
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"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »John McCain
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"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish." »E. M. Cioran
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"The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation." »George McGovern
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"With Epcot center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." »William Butler Yeats
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"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »Tom Daschle
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"Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." »Bernard Bailey
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"Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love." »Andrew Schneider
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"The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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"To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men." »Albert Einstein
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"At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world." »Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal
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"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen." »Ashley Smith
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"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." »Albert Einstein
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"Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center." »Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'" »Stephen William Hawking
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