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• I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The answer seems obvious: Buy a very large one and just wait.

  Paul Ormerod

  Entrepreneur, Waiting, Would Be

  Paul Ormerod (2010). “Why Most Things Fail”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

  Robert Reich

  Stronger, Minimum Wage, Benefits

  "Raising Most People’s Wages" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Secret, Dupes, Usual

  Dialogues des Morts Dialogue V

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• We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Dna, Intuition

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• But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.

  Albert Einstein

  Growing Up, Men, Personality

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

  John P. Kotter

  Issues, People, Culture

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.11, Harvard Business Press

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• Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Reality, Bridges, Tinkering

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• Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

  Christian Smith

  Real, Creative, Fuel

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• We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

  William Godwin

  Philosophy, Medicine, Unhappy

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• The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Body, Consideration, Share

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Men, Foundation

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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• The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

  Billy Tauzin

  Humble, New Orleans, Water

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• America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the Jewish concept of repair the world, or Tikkun ha'olam, which holds that the human spirit is in partnership with God to help finish the work of creation.

  Forrest Church

  America, World, Spirit

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• In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.

  Will Cotton

  Thinking, Class, America

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• I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

  Merton Miller

  Data, Class, Patterns

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• The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Differences, Two

  "Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Art —for Man's Sake: I", www.nytimes.com. September 30, 1972.

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• I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Discipline, People

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1985, Best Books on

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• I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.

  Marcel Breuer

  Details, Smallest, Whole

  Marcel Breuer (1963). “Buildings and Projects: 1921-1961”

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• Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.

  Marcel Breuer

  Passion, Mean, Principles

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• Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

  Susan Rice

  Democracy, Jazz

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• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  Walter Gropius

  Art, Character, Hands

  "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)

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• If you can observe your own experience with a minimum of interference, and if you don't try to control what you experience, if you simply allow things to happen and you observe them, then you will be able to discover things about yourself that you did not know before. You can discover little pieces of the inner structures of your mind, the very things that make you who you are.

  Ron Kurtz

  Mind, Trying, Pieces

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• The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Problem, Certain

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

  Harry Seidler

  Language, Ancient, Used

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