Quotes About Pattern
All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own pattern ms and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.
~ Iain Banks
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action
~ Ian Fleming
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Which brought me back to my worry. Why had he turned up just then? Why at that precise moment? Why not the day before or after, for example? Was it just random, or was there an underlying pattern I couldn't yet see? Shakespeare, you understand, as interpreted by Henry Lytten. The greater the coincidence, the greater the importance of the hidden causation.
~ Ian Pears
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There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.
~ Leo Kottke
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With regards to Trump's treatment of Putin and Russia, national security experts and journalists have been citing the fact pattern and saying there's something strange going on.
~ Brian Stelter
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I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind of xenophobic populist strain, then that's what he will do.
~ Louis Theroux
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One conversation, here on the surface, yet another beneath. The priest and the mage are playing games, the entwining of suspicion with knowledge. Heboric sees a pattern, his plundering of ghostly lives gave him what he needed, and I think he's telling Kulp that the mage himself is closer to that pattern than he might imagine. "Here, wielder of Meanas, take my invisible hand…" Felisin
~ Steven Erikson
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When subjects go to sleep later in their body temperature cycles, they actually sleep less, even though they have been awake longer.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
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~ Steven H. Strogatz
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that raises a profound mystery: Scientists have long been baffled by the existence of spontaneous order in the universe. The laws of thermodynamics seem to dictate the opposite, that nature should inexorably degenerate toward a state of greater disorder, greater entropy. Yet all around us we see magnificent structures—galaxies, cells, ecosystems, human beings—that have somehow managed to assemble themselves.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
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That mix of order and anarchy is what we now call emergent behavior.
~ Steven Johnson
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Tomorrow I would resume the normal pattern of my life.
~ Storm Constantine
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Not only did failure oppress me, but I could no longer deny the pattern revealing itself before me.
~ Storm Constantine
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They were part of the same pattern. In his guts, Shan was sure they had to meet.
~ Storm Constantine
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the Formula and had then become imprisoned by it: first Kissing with Tongue for the fixed interval, then Tits for the fixed interval, then Fingering Her for the fixed interval before, culminatingly, Fucking. Never a step neglected nor a change to the order. A sex recipe. Now with a shock he realized that it needn't be thus.
~ Susan Choi
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Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had.
~ Jennifer Armintrout
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I always treat camo as a solid.
~ Nick Wooster
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Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.
~ Ridley Scott
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...to understand infatuation, how the loved person can become a holding pattern for all the tattered ends of memory, experience and thought you've ever had.
~ Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
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That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest my days with dignity and meaning, a pattern of behavior through which man might most articulately express his devotion to his fellows.
~ Milton Steinberg
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El shibori consiste en hacer innumerables ataduras con hilo en la seda antes del tinte, para lograr, finalizado el proceso, un sorprendente efecto veteado. Kioto es famoso por esta técnica, que también utilizaba mi madre.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
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It's a thread in a tapestry.
~ Miroslav Volf
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smoke came streaking upward. Then other threads of white began just outside the landing grid. They rushed after the first. The original rockets seemed to dodge. Others came up. There was an intricate pattern formed by the smoke trails of rockets rising and other rockets following, and some trails
~ Murray Leinster
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I mused as I drove homeward: take the hint And stop investigating my abyss? But all at once it dawned on me that this Was the real point, the contrapuntal theme; Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream But topsy-turvical coincidence, Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense. Yes! It sufficed that I in life could find Some kind of link and bobolink, some kind Or correlated pattern in the game, Plexed artistry, and something of the same Pleasure in it as they who played it found.
~ Nabokov V.
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