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  • Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

    George Orwell (1986). “Coming Up for Air”, Harvill Secker
  • If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

    Years   Cities   Long  
    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.
  • We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

    Use   Favors   Absence  
    Usenet article <20031213210102.GE18685@wall.org>, groups.google.com. December 14, 2003.
  • Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

    Art   Military   War  
    Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
  • There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.

  • Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.

    Jesus   Heaven   Humanity  
    St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.709, Moody Publishers
  • The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.

    Science   Curves   Wind  
  • The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.

  • Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

    Spiritual   Song   Age  
    David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.28, Broadway Books
  • Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

    Moon   Hair   Two  
  • To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems -- and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect.

    Healing   Past   Cells  
    Deepak Chopra (2015). “Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine”, p.22, Bantam
  • You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.

    Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1479, Anchor
  • Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

    Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30
  • The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.

    "Less really is more" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.
  • The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

    Cutting   Roles   World  
  • No interruptions, stereos pumpin from the dungeon, coming live from Flatbush Junction

    Rap   Dungeons   Junction  
  • The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

    Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press
  • I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place and culture. Together, these disciplines represent for me a fantastic platform for experimentation and expression. Of particular importance is the junction of the rational and the poetic resulting hopefully in works that resonate and belong to where they reside.

  • In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

    Brother   Father   Sea  
    Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.1, University of Chicago Press
  • The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got

  • The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

    Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.11, Hachette UK
  • This is how....life happens. One small thing at a time. A series of inconsequential junctions, any or none of which can lead to salvation or disaster. There are no grand moments where a person does or does not perform the act that defines their humanity. There are only moments that appear, briefly, to be this way.

    Humanity   Doe   Way  
  • We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

    Next   Sanity   Reason  
    Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin
  • Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

    "Watch: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Hugo’" by Casey Cipriani, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2013.
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