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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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• Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

  David Vitter

  Marriage, World, Social

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• An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

  Marie Stopes

  Curiosity, Body, Gloating

  Married Love ch. 5 (1918)

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• Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

  Charles Correa

  Lying, Texture, Layers

  Charles Correa (2010). “A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape & Other Essays”, p.22, Penguin Books India

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• Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Humble, Animal, Men

  1880 Man's Place in Nature.

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• As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Faith, Believe, Gambling

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS

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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 easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

  Anthony Doerr

  Narrative Structure, Miracle, Chocolate

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Zero, Knowledge, Would Be

  "100,000 Galaxies: What quest for alien 'supercivilizations' really tells us" by Michael Guillen, www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2015.

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• In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas.

  Arthur Frommer

  America, Mind, Looks

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• Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not at all a challenge. It is just removal of some mental blocks. Ideally speaking, this combination should be done based on scientific, clinical and neurobiological studies and the combined structure should be made brick by brick, layer by layer in a flawless manner as a homogeneous composition.

  Amit Ray

  Block, Yoga, Teaching

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• The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.

  Larry Dossey

  Doe, Different, Fundamentals

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• The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Government, Levels

  "Buchanan: 'Barack Obama Is a Drug Dealer of Welfare'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2012.

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• If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Space, Growth, Fruition

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2014). “2012: The year of the Mayan prophecy”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• A spiritual intention is a resounding YES to awakening to your fullest potential. It may include several of your life structures: mental, emotional, financial, relational - because there is no aspect of your life that is not spiritual.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Nov 29, 2012

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• Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Past, Radio

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• What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there is an entity called diseasewhich can be expelled when the right drug is found?

  John Henry Tilden

  Health, Ideas, Medicine

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• Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Political, Taoism

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• If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Past, Perfect

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• In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Death, Country, Taken

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Notes from China”, p.3, Random House

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• ...visual truth lies in the structure of light.

  Richard Kelly

  Lying, Light, Visuals

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• Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

  Peter Coyote

  Giving Up, Choices, Limits

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