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Your life doesnâ€™t happen in any kind of order. Events donâ€™t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. Itâ€™s all a… — Lidia Yuknavitch
In sum, the struggle for our future is . . .Â the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a… — Riane Eisler
When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly… — John Travolta
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks… — Kim Stanley
If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy.… — Twiggy
A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside peoples minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting… — Criss Angel
Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key â€” it opens the mind, frees the nervous… — Timothy Leary
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the… — Aldous Huxley
Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell. — Scott McCloud
The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving… — Ayn Rand
There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the… — Iris Murdoch
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns,… — Fred Barnes
When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns… — Judy Cannato
Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my… — Claire Vaye Watkins
There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field. — Bill Drayton
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after… — Josiah Royce
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical… — Terry Riley
Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism. — Henry Steele Commager
I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've… — Dave Matthews
I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't. — Richard Thompson

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