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• Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Stories, Form

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Levels, May, Safe

  "Hit Where It Hurts" by Theodore Kaczynski, "Why The System Is Tough", point 4, 2002.

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• Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Two, Example, Details

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• Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Fashion, Religious, Fighting

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• I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Country, School, Please Me

  Oscar Niemeyer's acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1988.

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• My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Ambition, Support, Important

  "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

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• Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

  Carroll Quigley

  Organization, Wish, Might

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

  John Rawls

  Desire, Principles, Institutions

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.

  John Maynard Smith

  Wind Blowing, Boeing, Steps

  "The Problems of Biology". Book by John Maynard Smith, p. 49, 1986.

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• Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

  Dan Simmons

  Love, Matter, Gravity

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1249, Spectra

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• My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source

  Thom Yorke

  Loyalty, Selfish, Viruses

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• The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

  James P. Cannon

  Home, America, World

  "The Struggle for a Proletarian Party". Book by James P. Cannon, 1943.

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• To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.

  Terence McKenna

  Giving, Political, Mind

  "History Ends in Green". Terence McKenna's eight-hour lecture at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1989.

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• Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Ideas, Mind, Monument

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• I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.

  Ted Haggard

  Church, Enabling, Ministry

  Ted Haggard (1998). “The Life-Giving Church”, Regal Books

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• The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Behaviour, Way, Hearing

  "The Theory of Sound". Book by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 1862.

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• Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.

  Erik Naggum

  Skeletons, People, Trying

  "The horror that is XML". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. March 7, 2002.

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• So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came moisture and things began to grow... a message of hope. Nothing physical. How do you intend for your breath to become a work of art? The only way I can see it is that you prevent your breath from becoming a structure. As soon as your breath takes on the form of a room, you are a carpenter; you're not God.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Wind, Moisture

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• With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

  Paul Laseau

  Media, Drawing, Sketching

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• Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?

  Chris Abani

  Hate, Past, People

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• I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyond my understanding and not at all similar to anything of our earthly world that I have experienced so far. I marvel at the intellect and attention to detail, the precision manifested by the workings of this great and often unseen force of which we are all a part.

  Rosemary Altea

  Understanding, Unseen, Details

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• Outside the firm, price movements direct production, which is co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market. Within a firm, these market transactions are eliminated and in place of the complicated market structure with exchange transactions is substituted the entrepreneur-co-ordinator, who directs production.

  Ronald Coase

  Entrepreneur, Movement, Complicated

  "The nature of the firm" by Ronald Coase in Economica, Volume 4, No. 16 (p. 388), onlinelibrary.wiley.com. November 1937.

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• We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Two, Waiting, Answers

  "Blade of Tyshalle" by Matthew Stover, XIV.3, (p. 472), 2001.

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• In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Law, Purpose, Branches

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32

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• Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.

  John Carroll

  Self, Political, Theatre

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