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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

#embedded #entity #exist #extent #isolated

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. ↗

— David Ives

#discriminatory #elitist #lists #print #small

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. ↗

— Fred Allen

#days #during #enjoying #had #johnson

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cook #dinner #especially #ever #fancy

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. ↗

— Woody Allen

#had #i #love #over #smallpox

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. ↗

— Woody Allen

#here #portions #small #terrible #too

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#animal #glories #gunpowder #loves #man

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#dying #entitlement #gives #male #painful

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#cardboard #create #exciting #exists #i

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object. ↗

— William Ames

#action #active #agent #always #because