#pat

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

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I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#historical #i #i see #lot #nation

Patience and time do more than strength or passion. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

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So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#because #being #both #frequently #had

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#asking #because #course #determines #doctor

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs. ↗

— Salman Khan

#big #big screen #characters #dvds #enthusiasm

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ↗

— Lin Yutang

#food #patriotism #food

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#else #embryo #exposed #grandiose #great