#isolated

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#i think #isolated #lot #miss #out

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#instrument #isolated #melancholy #miserable #such

In isolated or country places no man's life is safe. ↗

— John White Geary

#isolated #life #man #places #safe

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#attention #because #been #even #fight

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

#great men #isolated #men #ranges #rarely

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #blunted #carried #competition #edge

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#classified #even #found #genus #had

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off. ↗

— Helen Slater

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