“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The inner sort of consumer identity got the best of people. And everybody just wants things for free. And that's created this… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again!… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Just the way sound creates visible waves as it travels through a droplet of water, our "belief waves" ripple through the quantum… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
On a psychic level, we could be carrying energies and entities and cravings and habits and confusion and patterns of behavior from… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
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