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• It took me over a couple of months to find the right piece of transparent paper for a section near the centre, on the right side of the Garden of Nebuchadnezzar. When I did find it, it was on a bottle of my wife's toilet water.

  Harold Town

  Couple, Garden, Water

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• A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

  Kobo Abe

  Home, Knowing, Glasses

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage

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• You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, Blue, Play

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism?

  Peter J. Carroll

  Philosophy, Party, Fall

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Servant Of God, Joy, May

  “'I'm just a pilgrim,' Benedict XVI says in public farewell” by Laura Smith-Spark and Richard Allen Greene, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Doe, Sake

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

  Edmund Clowney

  Worship, Response

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• Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
  [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Son, Cracks, Vain

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• As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Curves, Focus

  Henry David Thoreau, Robert Lawrence France, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

  Karen Armstrong

  Compassion, World, Feels

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• He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. 
  (about Ian St John)

  Bill Shankly

  England, British, Isle

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• We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Son, Essence

  Karl Barth (2003). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God”, p.661, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Brother, Real, Islamic

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and news.Misinformation about some attacks is going to affect how emotionally involved the audience is going to get. In the end, an emotional ranking is artificially created when it comes to casualties.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Emotional, Media

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• They [Throne; legacy costumes] are made out of foam latex, which is basically what prosthetic makeup is made out of. So it's very delicate and very fragile. And then you put the electronics in there and you have a whole other level of fragility. So we had many suits and sometimes we would have to change out at lunchtime and send the other one to the "suit-hospital." It was like a surgery centre.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Makeup, Levels, Electronics

  Source: www.tribute.ca

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• The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."

  Erro

  Venice, Directors, Exhibitions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis.

  Deborah Smith

  Summer, School, Axes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to home. For me the best experience was in Glasgow, where I got to play Dee Dee for two weeks! The audience sang along to every song with such enthusiasm you actually couldn't hear yourself singing! That was incredible!

  Francesca Jackson

  Song, Home, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.

  Hal Duncan

  Ghetto, Tv Shows, Water

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• I personally find that each instalment has a different director, cast and crew, and I've also been in a different season in my life for each of them, so I feel like each movie is a unique experience that centres around my undying passion for music and dance.

  Alyson Stoner

  Passion, Unique, Directors

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

  Melissa Breen

  Beautiful, Numbers, Black

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Girl, Mirrors, Light

  "Snow Country". Book by Yasunari Kawabata, 1948.

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• I think that there's no question that, in Alberta as the price of oil continues to drop, that there are families ... that are worried about the instability that that brings to the economy. And so that has to be more and more front and centre in terms of the work that we do as a government.

  Rachel Notley

  Thinking, Government, Oil

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.

  Moby

  Beach, Cities, Hollywood Hills

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Rocks, Soho

  Source: thequietus.com

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