While we think of the boundary between what is legal and what is not as a clear dividing line, it is far from being so. Rather, the boundary becomes further and further indented and folded over time, yielding a jagged and complicated border, rather than a clear straight line. In the end, the law turns out to look like a fractal: no matter how much you zoom in on such a shape, there is always more unevenness, more detail to observe. Any general rule must end up dealing with exceptions, which in turn split into further exceptions and rules, yielding an increasingly complicated, branching structure. . Samuel Arbesman
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or,...
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Oliver Sacks
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.
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Bruce Lee
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Orson Scott Card
ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of–this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt– I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.
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Stephen Dunn
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
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Doug Dillon
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