The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers. . but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!
What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.
You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.
There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.
The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner. . . dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory. . . "The supremacy of corporate economic power. . . consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation. . . [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.
I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.
Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.
Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.
To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident. . . themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.
Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.
I think that's what centers me the most - all my people, all my animals.
