Structure Quotes - Page 40

• If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Plato, Building Houses, Ideas

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

  Winston Churchill

  Ordinary, Essentials, Noble

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Coats, Examination, Saws

  "Cite libre" Journal, April 1963.

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• The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Reality, Matter, Spirit

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1971). “Human energy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Life Changing, Sky

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Poison, Benefits

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Circles, Corporations

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The new industrial state”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Lines, Narcissism

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• A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Cells, Imagination

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hate, Real, Order

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Little Sister: A Novel”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Fun, Careers, Peers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Art, Purpose

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• Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.

  Sarah Burton

  Beautiful, Clothes, Design

  "Sarah Burton Speaks About Her Role as Kate's Wedding Dress Designer" by Veronique Hyland, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 29, 2011.

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• Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

  Robert Heilbroner

  Hero, Reality, Age

  "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers". Book by Robert L. Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen, p. 224, 1953.

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• Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

  Dean Koontz

  Mean, Psychology, Odd Thomas

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.189, Bantam

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• Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.

  Peter Drucker

  War, Fighting, Essence

  "The Future of Industrial Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1942.

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• The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

  Peter Drucker

  Eight, Years, Law

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Europe, Top Management

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.

  Bob Avakian

  Essence, Political, Democracy

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• We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

  Jane Fonda

  Limits, Economic, Profit

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• When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

  Tony Krantz

  Decision, Able

  Source: movieweb.com

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• every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Mean, Divorce

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Organization, People

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Spiritual, People, Want

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