Patterns Quotes

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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. — Jay Maisel
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become… — Bruce Schneier
I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would… — Richard G. Scott
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other… — Ludwig von Mises
Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more… — Stephen Hawking
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even… — Robert Nozick
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate… — Barack Obama
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing -… — Maurice Strong
Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ...… — Nigel Weiss
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of… — Pope John Paul II
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes… — Barack Obama
Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now — John Beddington
While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising -… — Edward Davey
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… — Arthur Fry
So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the… — Pope John Paul II
Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole… — Louis Bromfield

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