It reminds you that you're not the center of the universe -- it opens your mind and gives you perspective.
The next step, where we are unique, is to have the event itself no longer be the center of the universe.
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To make things more complicated, the act of perceiving this information changes it, putting biological consciousness at the center of the universe.
Customer loyalty is about making the customer the center of the universe.
"It may not be the center of the universe like Manhattan, but this is one of the premier hotels in Queens, " said Mr. Gordon.
The universe was divided into neat eternal zones: the earth was rough, rugged, and corrupt with mortality, and therefore had settled in, heavy and unhappy, at the center of the universe.
It's possible this new pope from "the end of the Earth, " as he put it in his first blessing, has something to teach those who like to believe they're at the center of the universe.
Mr. SEDGWICK: Once upon a time, they were the world's largest company, and you had a sense that their headquarters, in a way, was the center of the universe, and everyone had to react to GM.
New York City likes to present itself as the center of the universe, and often it's a parochial delusion, but the ascent of Jeremy Lin was one of the precious moments where the claim felt very real.
The Italian physicist concluded in the 1600s that the sun did not, in fact, travel around the earth, but that the earth orbited the sun, bucking Catholic logic that the earth was the center of the universe.
This is the Plan B not as good as Miami, not as glamorous, and not as consistently entertaining to watch, though those dazzling midwinter weeks with Jeremy Lin turned the Garden into what felt like the center of the universe.
At lunchtime head to Ivar's, a Seattle institution serving the best, and perhaps cheapest, clam chowder in the city. that will fortify you to explore Seattle's coolest neighbourhood, the artsy Fremont, considered "the center of the universe" by residents.
It's nice to know that New York's status as the center of the universe only seems to be intensifying, and that in an era when everyone fears NYC has become a playground for the rich, it continues to attract folks who are totally broke.
His wife Mary Kay, his partner of four decades, the mother of his six children and the center of his universe, waited sheepishly at the corner of the court.
Corporate bureaucrats, union leaders, and politicians became the new center of the economic universe, the new bosses of each and every enterprise.
Once upon a time, there was a capitalist system where firms competed against each other, and the consumer was the center of the economic universe, the beginning and the ending of every economic activity.
Even so, and even as the center of the baseball universe drifts west, the Mets and Yankees will play 162 games apiece.
Note how abruptly scientific leaders can become followers: in the first decades of the 20th century, when Heidelberg and Freiburg were at the center of the academic universe, Germany won more Nobel prizes than any other country: 38 between 1901 and 1931, outpacing the U.S. by a factor of two and a half.
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At the center of the Skylanders universe are cartoon monster heroes, including the fire-breathing dragon Spyro, who has already starred in several of his own games.
This includes the opening up of local markets to competition, and placing of consumers rather than producers and government bureaucrats at the center of the economic universe.
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The Institute comprises three centers, the Center for SETI Research, the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and the Center for Education and Public Outreach.
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But it is irrational from the perspective of fast-moving global markets, where consumers rather than central planners are at the center of the economic universe.
"Nino, " as friends and family call him, was the lone offspring of two immigrant Italian families and "the center of their universe, " said Biskupic, who published "American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" in 2009.
As recently as two years ago, the PC was still the center of the digital universe.
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This final group -- the battleground states -- will become the center of the political universe as both candidates will need to win them, and they will return again and again to these stomping grounds.
Man must be at the center of a universe on a stable planet, or else the core Catholic claim that the omnipotent ruler of the cosmos could satisfy his sense of justice only by sending his son here to be tortured to death begins to seem a little frayed.
In short, AOL (in the U.S.) was then the center of the digital Internet universe and expanding outward.
But the center of my data universe is moving away from the single important object.
Sage was our first child and the center of our universe and I am humbly begging for all to have my son's memory and soul left in peace.
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The excitement over Jeremy Lin feels authentic and loud, a city confidently reset as the center of a self-created universe.
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