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In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are… — Anthony Giddens
It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's… — Mildred Blaxter
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security -… — Anthony Giddens
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny… — Rene Dubos
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern. — James Cameron
I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort… — Prabal Gurung
I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially… — Robert M. Gates
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns… — Hari Kunzru
I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience… — Bill Kurtis
The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through… — Fritjof Capra
In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of… — Freeman Dyson
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us. — Sigmund Freud
As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no… — Robert Jordan
If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do… — Paul Lockhart
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness.… — Terence McKenna
I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our… — Tara Brach
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that… — Peter Bergen
Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid… — J. Philippe Rushton
It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns.… — Christopher Alexander

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