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«Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
animate, animates, center, embraces, notion, ornament
«I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.»
Author: Confucius
| Keywords:
center, centers, center on, deep, Everything You Want, I Want You, The Center
«I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
center, centers, center on, close, close to, edge, edge in, edging, going-over, kinds, Over the Edge, stand, The Center, the edge
«One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| Keywords:
center, circumference, directed, efforts, habits, heretofore, nearly, personality, seemed, so to speak, The Center, the self, way of life
«Once you accept the existence of God-however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him-then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.»
Author: Morris West
| About:
God
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accept, caught, center, centers, center on, define, existence, existence of God, explain, forever, however, presence, presence of God, relationship, The Center, the existence of God
«New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.»
«People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine.»
Author: Richard Goodwin
| Keywords:
center, connected, engine, steering, steering wheel, The Center, Washington, wheel
«One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
arriving, center, circumference, pass through, The Center
«Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
center, centers, center on, circumference, everywhere, from nowhere, infinite, nowhere, sphere
«Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.»
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