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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing
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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
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