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If \'The New York Times\' didn\'t exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. \'The Huffington Post\' and everything else is predicated on \'The New York Times\'. It\'s a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information - and her confidence.

I do admit that I\'ve never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It\'s not my choice. It\'s just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that\'s the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she\'s going to stay that way.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.

Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There's less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what's happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn\'t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

I\'m a big Harrison Ford fan. I kind of pattern a lot of things after him, the way that he\'s an every man. He\'s one of the biggest action stars ever, but he transcends that term because he\'s such a good actor. I tend to really appreciate the stuff he\'s done.

I know where I\'m going musically. I can see my pattern and I\'m going much slower than I thought I\'d be going.

An accident is a pattern carefully planned by someone.

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.

If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we\'ll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.

The man [who] is greatest and most blessed and joyful [is one] whose life most closely approaches the pattern of Christ. This has nothing to do with earthly wealth, power, or prestige. The only true test of greatness, blessedness, joyfulness is how close can a life come to being like the Master, Jesus Christ. He is the right way, the full truth, and the abundant life.

They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.

Avatar template. (Anatoly Yurkin)

The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ...

At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.