Structure Quotes - Page 29

• Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Personality, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Democracy, Citizens

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• The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.

  Max Born

  Peace, War, Mean

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• You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

  Mike Figgis

  Player, Interesting, Trying

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• I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Writing, Thinking, Discipline

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• When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Past, Thinking, Sky

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• I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Sesame Street is the epitome of children’s television. It has continued to maintain the successful structure that was established in the beginning. Through it’s amazing research department, teaching has been made fun. This, the heart and humor works for children and adults alike, that’s why I’m very honored to be a part of it.

  Kevin Clash

  Fun, Children, Teaching

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• Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Chinese, Purpose, Architecture

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  Adam Braun

  Office Space, Mean, School

  "Three Months Later - Learnings from the Greg Mortensen Controversy" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2011.

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• All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Self Esteem, Play

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• If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Plato, Building Houses, Ideas

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

  Winston Churchill

  Ordinary, Essentials, Noble

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Coats, Examination, Saws

  "Cite libre" Journal, April 1963.

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• The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Reality, Matter, Spirit

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1971). “Human energy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Life Changing, Sky

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Poison, Benefits

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Circles, Corporations

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The new industrial state”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Lines, Narcissism

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• A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Cells, Imagination

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hate, Real, Order

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Little Sister: A Novel”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Fun, Careers, Peers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Art, Purpose

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• Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.

  Sarah Burton

  Beautiful, Clothes, Design

  "Sarah Burton Speaks About Her Role as Kate's Wedding Dress Designer" by Veronique Hyland, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 29, 2011.

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