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• The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

  Arthur Miller

  Home, Writing, Editing

  Harper's, Aug. 1958

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• When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, Mind, Masters

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

  Paul Goldberger

  Bears, Architecture, Building

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• Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances

  Bob Benson

  Healing, Heart, Technique

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• What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Fabric, Existence

  "What Is Reality?". Book by Alan Watts, 1973.

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• It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

  Carroll Quigley

  Pregnancy, Years, United States

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Strong, Garden, Shoes

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• I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Example

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• Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Temperature

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• In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Community, Decision

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• Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Voice, Should Have

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy & Education”, p.337, Psychology Press

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• We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.

  Thomas Berry

  Moving, Creativity, Appreciate

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• A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

  Theodor Adorno

  Success, Art, Thinking

  "Essays on Music".

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• What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Years, Law

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Mark Twain's speeches”

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• In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Library, Twenties, Example

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• So the first thing to be reminded of: love is never a relationship. Then something else is masquerading as love. Maybe you are searching for a husband or a wife - you are searching for some security, you are searching for some structure. A structured life is a murdered life.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Husband, Love Is

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• The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

  Ai Weiwei

  Internet, Individual, Made

  Interview with Katie Hill, www.tate.org.uk. October 12, 2010.

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• The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

  James Rainwater

  Understanding, Triumph, Suggestions

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• General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure, a family, a culture if you isolate it from its context. Relationship is everything.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Taken, Simple, Reality

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• You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

  Eben Moglen

  Memories, Technology, Order

  "Why Free Beer Isn’t So Good if your Data are Getting Drunk: How Free as in Freedom Businesses Help Prevent the Ultimate Privacy Catastrophe". MySQL Conference, www.softwarefreedom.org. 2007.

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• Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Color, Should Have, Essence

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• Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

  Krista Tippett

  Calm, Toddler, Knows

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• It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.

  Frederick Soddy

  Destiny, Men, Hands

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• The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Taken, People, Together

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• Your body is molecular structure your body is a massive energy at a very high speed of vibration.

  Bob Proctor

  Energy, Body, Vibrations

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