| "Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." »Alfred North Whitehead |
| "You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something." »Robert M. Pirsig |
| "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." »Thomas Paine |
| "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." »Carl Sagan |
| "Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most." »Al Capp |
| "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." »Albert Einstein |
| "I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven." »Woody Allen |
| "Ideology is a form of illiteracy. Those addicted to it are unable to understand anything other than what fits their pattern." »John Saul |
| "Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence." »Henri Estienne |
| "If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern." »Ursula K. LeGuin |
| "In seven different Scriptures God has dogmatically stated 'build all things according to the pattern (blueprint) shown to you.' You don't repair a Chevrolet from the Ford repair manual. In like manner, Body truth is not found in Hebrew doctrine. It's like trying to mix oil with water--it just can't be mixed" »Ron Garner |
| "I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The |
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