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«The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Mississippi, patterns, sentence, slipping, sock, socks, Southerner
«The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.»
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
| About:
Realism,
Reality
| Keywords:
interpretation, patterns, serves, solitary
«Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attempting, cold comfort, comet, Comets, comforting, consolation, contradiction, contradictory, inherited, our planet, patterns, presents, Revelations, scarcely, skies, vanish, vivid
«Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.»
«My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.»
Author: Rachel Carson
| Keywords:
blazing, companion, constellation, constellations, flowing, horizon, milky, Milky Way, misty, patterns, The Milky Way
«Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Character,
Habit
| Keywords:
basically, composite, composites, consistent, constantly, daily, express, habits, patterned, patterns
«The same gold is fashioned into various articles; just so, the Lord has made the many patterns of the creation.»
Author: Atharva Veda
| Keywords:
patterns
«Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Environment,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
amateur, amateurism, anti, critical, environmental, merges, merging, patterns, professionalism, Rules of
«Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, automation, autonomy, educational, electric, electric fire, electric light, employment, grouped, latent, patterns, supplied, supplied with, warmth
«New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual o»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
codes, Greeks, new media, patterns, phonetic, set down, Supposing, the Greeks, visual
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