"We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature."
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"The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight."
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"What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos."
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"I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed."
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"Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism."
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"Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern."
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"Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space."
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"I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume."
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"Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge."
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"And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals."
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"Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect."
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"My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody."
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"Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain."
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"Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns."
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"That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some."
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"I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us."
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"Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it."
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"A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance."
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"Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built."
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"When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in."
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