"For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth."
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"As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living."
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"History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns."
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"Math is sometimes called the science of patterns."
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"There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet"
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"It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives."
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"The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns."
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"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns."
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"To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion."
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space."
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"Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence."
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"Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation."
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"Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated."
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"Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put."
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"When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography."
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"Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise."
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"One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns."
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"Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern."
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"We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us."
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