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• Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Broken, House, Support

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.69, Penguin

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• Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is communal, but to face it we must be empowered as individuals and create structures of support and celebration that can teach us freedom. Creation is the ultimate resistance, the ultimate refusal to accept things as they are. For it is in creation that we encounter Mystery.

  Starhawk

  Support, Challenges, Way

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• The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

  John Ralston Saul

  Winning, Power, Age

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?

  Walker Evans

  Science, Reality, Engineering

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• Who says that fictions only and false hair
  Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
  Is all good structure in a winding stair?

  George Herbert

  Hair, Fiction, Stairs

  'Jordan (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

  Wendy Carlos

  Art, Lying, Discipline

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• I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

  Evan Parker

  Thinking, Voice, Lines

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• To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

  Evan Parker

  Guarantees, Way, Speak

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• A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.

  Joel Salatin

  Pigs, Views, Other Cultures

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• There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture. If you're brought up in an island where people have pointed heads, that would be 'beautiful' in your terms. All these mythological structures is what gets us into trouble; the artificiality of our values that get us into trouble.

  Jacque Fresco

  Beautiful, Girl, Islands

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• A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean.

  Ken Wilber

  Ocean, Unity, Trying

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

  Michael Chabon

  Life, Mother, Boys

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• It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

  Alan Perlis

  Trust, Data, Function

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• For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves a good history, and I'm happy to say that in this book it has one. The authors present a compelling, nuanced, and richly detailed account of the place from its beginnings to the present.

  James Trefil

  Book, Fundamentals, Half

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• With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

  Ernst Engel

  Demand, Patterns, Income

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• On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.

  Alan Feduccia

  Bird, Body, Fossils

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• Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring.

  Billy Graham

  Eye, Angel, Choices

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• In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.

  Seymour S. Kety

  Years, People, Brain

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• Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

  Henry Maudsley

  Brain, Unions, Organs

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• Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost his belief in the existence of God said: "The whole horrible structure, based not on the love of God, but on the fear of hell, tumbled down like a house of cards."

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Uncles, School, House Of Cards

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• One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art". - Herbert Marcuse
  "Play is a phenomenon of nature and has directed the course of the world from the beginning of time: the formation of matter, its organization into living structures as well as the social behavior of man.

  Manfred Eigen

  Art, Fun, Men

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• Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

  Taylor Mead

  Money, Doors, Leaving

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• Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

  K.P. Yohannan

  Cities, People, Missionary

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• The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

  Bobby Knight

  Volleyball, Practice, Reason

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• Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.

  Arthur Eddington

  Knowledge, Science, Soul

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