Here was my central thought: Who names a trail Hanging Tree?
I had a new central thought: Hey, don't they have any hard trails on this mountain?
The central thought, spilling in block letters across multiple pages, is "a throw of the dice will never abolish chance".
That is the central thought behind Causes, the Facebook application created two years ago by Sean Parker, a former Facebook executive and Joe Green, a college roommate of the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Other major software makers have announced similar efforts to make security "not an add-on, but a central thought" in software design, Mr. Clarke said.
Since then that central thought, "Shape, Respond, Prepare," could be seen at every military installation worldwide and as the centerpiece of any briefing on global strategy.
"The Adults" is much tamer, and besides, Ms. Espach expresses her book's central thought more colloquially: "You are always learning how to say goodbye to whoever you were at the dinner table the night before".
"It had a typical crappy kind of sense of 'Oh we can't have a mandarin point of view, so what you will do is to get 10 different people, we'll interview them and then we'll just sling little slices of it together.' And so there's no thesis, there's no continuity, there's no central thought … it was exasperating, empty-headed.
If this is the central thought, then Hume can claim Sextus as an ancestor.
You can use either a word or picture to represent the central thought or starting point, images are worth a thousand words.
