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• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, People, Interesting

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• The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

  Arthur Fry

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

  Herbert Read

  Life, Art, Sensibility

  "Perl Cookbook". Book by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, 1998.

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• History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

  Ted Nelson

  Looks, Complicated, Fractals

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• The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Way, Ifs

  Epistulae, 6.5 (translated by R M Gummere).

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• As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Spiritual, Long, Soul

  "The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It". Book by Dennis Merritt Jones, p. 70, June 9, 2011.

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• It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

  Alice Childress

  Creative

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• Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

  Arne Glimcher

  Moving, Fate, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

  Margaret Mead

  Humanity, Together, Woven

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

  Alfred Adler

  Relationship, Sex, Tests

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• Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

  Ronald Graham

  Math, Sometimes

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• At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Moments, Behavior, Insight

  Rupert Sheldrake (2012). “The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.

  Susan Howatch

  Design, Purpose, World

  Susan Howatch (1971). “Penmarric”

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• Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

  Jared Diamond

  Optimistic, Writing, Past

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge" by John Brockman, Barnes & Noble Publishing, (p. 31), 2003.

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• Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Good Life, Action, Theory

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• The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered

  Roy Jenkins

  Party, Together, Splits

  Roy Jenkins (1985). “Partnership of principle: writings and speeches on the making of the alliance”, Secker & Warburg

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• Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Destiny, Woven, Needs

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• What is the pattern of change?

  Janet Burroway

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• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

  Doris Lessing

  Cat, Air, Water

  Doris Lessing (2012). “On Cats”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

  Francis Marion

  Life, Strange

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• In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

  Peter Garrett

  Stars, People, Capacity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Thinking, People, Saws

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• By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

  Leo Ornstein

  Ears, Visuals

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