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• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Character, Virtue

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

  Lawrence Welk

  Dukes, Originals

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• A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

  Jimmy Sangster

  Evil, Mind, Faces

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• I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Doctors

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• The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sexy, Men, Texture

  "The New Spirit". Book by Havelock Ellis, 1890.

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• A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Men, Copying

  Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.509, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Character, Political, Doe

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

  Ann Macbeth

  Directors, World, Advertising

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• The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Pregnancy, Sensual

  'On some technical Elements of Style in Literature' (1885)

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• As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

  Bridget Riley

  Artist, Enquiry, Way

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

  Norman McLaren

  Two, Drawing, Film

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• 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.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Looks, Where You Are, Make Sense

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Successful, Peers, Recognition

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.100, Penguin

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• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Literature, Interpretation

  Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the role of a writer, www.farnamstreetblog.com. 1982.

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• It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Peace, Fear

  Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Michigan Legislature in Lansing (May 15, 1952) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

  Ruth Benedict

  Community, Firsts, Individual

  Patterns of Culture ch. 1 (1934)

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• I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Growing Up, Television, Littles

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

  Jodie Foster

  Fate, Destiny, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

  Jules Feiffer

  Mother, Father, Looks

  Jules Feiffer (1977). “Hold Me!”, p.44, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

  Gregory Bateson

  Insomnia, Principles, Impossible

  "Not Ours to Exploit" by Terry Tempest Williams, progressive.org. February 23, 2012.

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• The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Education, Organization, Training

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• A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.

  Edgar Schein

  Thinking, Groups, Way

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• There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Real, Emotion, Individualism

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• His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Butterfly, Wings, Dust

  A Moveable Feast "Scott Fitzgerald" (1964)

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