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• Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

  Russell Kirk

  Organization, Perfect, Mind

  Russell Kirk (1963). “Confessions of a bohemian Tory: episodes and reflections of a vagrant career”

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• The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Tasks, Live Free

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.132, AK Press

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• The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines the meaning of existence. A frail structure shaped by fleeting sound, it yet contains the eternal: truth. Words come from within, rising as sounds fashioned by the organs of a man's body, as expressions of his heart and spirit. He utters them, yet he does not create them, for they already existed independently of him. One word is related to another; together they form the great unity of language, that empire of truth-forms in which a man lives.

  Romano Guardini

  Powerful, Heart, Fate

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• The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Wisdom, Art, Powerful

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• Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Clients, Masters

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• Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Climate, World, May

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• Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?

  Eli Siegel

  Opposites, Oneness, Long

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• The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Powerful, Army, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, People, Economic

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• A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

  Keith Miller

  Jobs, Giving, People

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• I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

  Clifford Geertz

  Skeptical, Agree, Innate

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• Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

  Peter Senge

  Unseen, Process, Force

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.78, Random House

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• Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about...  I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.

  Werner Arber

  Cells, Together, Molecules

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• For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Historical, Actors

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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• What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal milieux we are required to look beyond them. And the number and variety of such structural changes increase as the institutions within which we live become more embracing and more intricately connected with one another. To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux. To be able to do that is to possess the sociological imagination

  C. Wright Mills

  Ideas, Numbers, Imagination

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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• Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Freedom, Distance, Science

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• Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Then I got interested in [saxophonist] John Coltrane.

  Lenny Breau

  Music, Player, Piano

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• The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

  Ross Macdonald

  Running, Detectives, Vibrations

  Ross Macdonald (1973). “On crime writing”

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• According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Concentration Of Wealth, Rights, World

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Talking, Giving, Jazz

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

  Jenny Shipley

  Needs, Aspect, Integrated

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• The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

  Herbert Croly

  Adoption, Political, Opponents

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Thinking, Ncaa

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• Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

  Frank Shorter

  Motivational, Athlete, School

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