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• A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

  Tom DeLay

  Family, Delay, Care

  "On the role of women in the home". Interview with Armstrong Williams, February 10, 2004.

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• There is a deep desire to change the power structure.

  Robert Reich

  Desire, Desire To Change, Deep Desire

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Order, Important

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• At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Principles, Moral

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• We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Thinking, Creative, Important

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• The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of cell division and growth, that they participate In the transmission of hereditary characters, and that they are important constituents of viruses. An understanding of the molecular structure of the nucleic acids should be of value In the effort to understand the fundamental phenomena of life.

  Linus Pauling

  Life, Character, Science

  Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences”, p.1123, World Scientific

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• Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.

  Anne Mallory

  Clever, Men, Thinking

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• People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Priorities, Needs

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• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

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• They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

  Charles Bukowski

  Care, Laughed

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.184, Canongate Books

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• Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.

  Janet Macunovich

  Focus, Missing, Essentials

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• What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

  Berenice Abbott

  Real, Needs, Equipment

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

  Bill Ayers

  Ideas, Driven, Young

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• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, President, Contemporary

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• We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Together, Body

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• It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

  Charles Darwin

  Acres, Earth, Hens

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.514, VM eBooks

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• I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

  Steve Buscemi

  Writing, Stories, Terrible

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing.

  Rashida Jones

  Writing, Leaving, Trying

  "Keeping Up with Rashida Jones". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 2, 2012.

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• It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

  Voltaire

  Mother, Men, Maturity

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.108, Penguin

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• Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, People, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman, Various (2010). “The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House”, p.9, DC

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• In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Illustration, Naval Warfare, Navy

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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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