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The Center
«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
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center, circumference, directed, efforts, habits, heretofore, nearly, personality, seemed, so to speak, The Center, the self, way of life
«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
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center, connected, engine, steering, steering wheel, The Center, Washington, wheel
«Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all»
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
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Action,
Right,
Thought,
Work
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See of, serenity, The Center
«Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Anarchy
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anarchy, bad blood, center, ceremony, conviction, dimmed, dimming, dims, drowned, fall apart, innocence, intensities, intensity, loosed, passionate, The Anarchy, The Center, Things Fall Apart, tide
«There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone.»
Author: Alfred Adler
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accusation, center of attention, concealed, deprived, deprived of, element, fix, The Center
«People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
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center, center of the universe, relates, The Center
«The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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Acre, acres, artificial, carnal, center of the universe, condemns, corresponding, disappear, exchange, figures, fortunes, handled, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, ideally, ingot, measures, merchants, operations, ruling, ruling class, Society of, thereby, The Center, The Ruling Class
«The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that connect all of those together. The key piece in the center is trustworthy systems, systems that do what you expect on an extremely reliable basis. So in each of these areas we have new scenarios, new ways that people will be using their computers that they never did before.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
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areas, aspect, compute, computer system, computing, connect, decade, digital, enterprises, extremely, homes, just about, reliable, scenario, scenarios, standards, systems, The Center, trustworthy, workers