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PAUL STEINHARDT It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-... RODNEY STARK MICHAEL SHERMER Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs t... J. G. GALLIMORE A synthesis—an abstraction, chunk, or gist idea—is a neural pattern. Good chunks form neural pat... BARBARA OAKLEY DEAN KOONTZ In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA JEANETTE CORON BRUCE LEE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. RICHARD CARLSON JOHN COLTRANE From Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, we see the same patterns of under-representation and stereotyped portra... ANNA TURLEY THICH NHAT HANH SUFJAN STEVENS KONRAD LORENZ GREGORY BATESON DEYTH BANGER The device can identify diseases by sensing chemical patterns carried in the breath. FRANK BRIGHT JACQUELINE CAREY The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one or... MORTON FELDMAN BRUCE LEE MANDY HALE LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively. SARAH PARCAK It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are, JONATHAN DAY CLIVE BARKER GARY ZUKAV ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM WILLIAM FAULKNER J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY THICH NHAT HANH JAY ASHER RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO SOPHOCLES G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON RICK RIORDAN HANYA YANAGIHARA ERIN MORGENSTERN G. H. HARDY A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent ... G.H. HARDY There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and gra... FRANK HERBERT J.D. SALINGER We envision being able to print (power plastics) in patterns ? to place them in the reoccurring patt... DANIEL MCGAHN BRIAN GREENE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Wildflowers don't grow haphazardly us we are led to believe. They grow in fantastic patterns which a... ANTHONY T.HNICKS The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY MANDY HALE G. H. HARDY ALBERT EINSTEIN BILL MARIS Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER The season followed some patterns that are typical. We're seeing the week after Christmas playing a ... MALACHY KAVANAGH Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI FRANCINE RIVERS The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ... STUART HADDON LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It appears that the Intel architecture business will return to seasonal patterns showing more streng... ANDY BRYANT Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. RONALD GRAHAM We're not seeing really big bold patterns. We're seeing really delicate patterns, which really empha... LEATRICE EISEMAN patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue. BRIAN GIBSON The patterns are repeated over and over again, and they can go on for infinity. Just like day and ni... 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Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle. 
Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) 
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ... 
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patte... 
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking,... 
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which origi... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized i... 
The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a... 
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa... 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixe... 
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the think... 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of ... 
We have been trained to think of patterns, with the exception of those of music, as fixed affairs. I... 
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of ... 
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside o... 
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes, fact and fiction, mind and matter, woven into pattern... 
Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on real... 
No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... 
I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... 
You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. 
Life is a journey, not a destination. 
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
To him, even the momentary was momentous. 
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... 
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... 
I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and comm... 
I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” 
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent ... 
There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and gra... 
That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... 
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... 
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of
patterns. If his patterns are more perman... 
In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and deve... 
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to... 
Were you there?”
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. 
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give signifi... 
There is no greater glory than to die for love. 
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... 
I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical for... 
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from... 
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style. 
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin... 
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. 
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments... 
All generalizations are false, including this one. 
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to... 
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood... 
The proper study of Mankind is Man. 
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. 
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. 
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner... 
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ... 
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla... 
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di... 
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit... 
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion 
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible 
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. 