"When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth."
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"The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard."
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"But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension."
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"A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness."
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"Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing."
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"And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71"
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"All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole."
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"Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant"
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"Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting."
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"So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology."
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"The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because unconsciously it's still a belief system that limits you."
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"A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free."
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"The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying."
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"Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things."
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"The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action."
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"All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information."
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"The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be."
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"Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech."
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"There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern."
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