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Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography

“Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?”

“The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.”

Thinking Firsts Remember Artist Found Tree Structure Plant Metals Roof Steam Power Plants

Author:John Sexton

“Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.”

“I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.”

Feels Looks Stills I Can Enough Moving Song Black Can Do White Alive Fields Pages Structure Soldier Agendas Black And White Avant Garde

Author:Scott Walker

“The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?”

Trying Film Views Stage Particular Structure Notion Scripts Point Of View Addresses

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.”

People Ifs Looks Differences Interesting Compassion Moral Empathy Intelligent Structure Definitions Medical Liars Profile Psychopath Sociopath Shorthand No Compassion Pathological Liar

Author:Cillian Murphy

“I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.”

Ifs Humans Book Ends States Left Structure Chairman Leather Human Society Mao Chairman Mao

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.”

Knows Different Girl House Social Century Creatures Normal Sitting Structure Dinner 20th Century Sitting Down Diana Social Structure

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“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.”

Writing Trying Matter Conversation Paper Structure Leaving Helpful Existential Papers Learning How To Write

Author:Rashida Jones

“Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.”

Thinking Whole Use Culture Behinds Teach Teacher Students Masters Messages Direct Structure Traditional Asian Transmit Asian Culture

Author:Takashi Murakami

“Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.”

Dream America Opportunity Community Rocks Structure Jazz Hip Hop Uplifting Hips Hops Rock N Roll American Dream Urban Materialistic Jazz And Blues

Author:Russell Simmons

“The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.”

Way Trying Long Has Beens Stories Humanity Language Universal Structure New Ways Always Trying

Author:James Frey

“In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.”

Writing Language Novel Demand Structure

Author:Don DeLillo

“A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.”

Ideas Novel Shapes Structure Size Determine

Author:Don DeLillo

“Basically, I'm going to take what you did, the bare-bones structure of what you were trying to do, how you were attacking the song, and attack it in pretty much the same way, just with more intensity to show you that you could've come harder. Like, I've been in situations where I've had to tell a cat how to rhyme his rhyme.”

Way Trying Shows Song Situation Cat Harder Structure Bones Intensity Rhyme Attacking

Author:Bun B

“I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.”

Thinking World Way Writing Shows Computer Structure Programming Programmers Computer Programming Computer Programmers

Author:Walter Mosley

“Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.”

Ifs Knows Writing Deals Computer Structure Programming Ingredients Recipes Computer Programming

Author:Larry Wall

“Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.”

Looks Heart Christian Lying Humanity Religious Morality Structure Golden Chinese Indian Ethical Adopted Very Deep Golden Rule

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.”

Important Stories Film Found Structure Unlikely Idiosyncrasies

Author:Peter Jackson

“But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.”

Nations Social Bits Cities Company Car Changed Building Shapes Organization Structure Elevators Social Structure

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

People Ifs Knows Ends Government Purpose Responsibility Baby Structure Forgiving Appetite Forgive Me Insatiable Canals Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.”

Men I Can Ideas Difficult Opinion Information Concepts Direct Structure Western Valuable Filters Intervening Bombarded

Book:Travels

Source: Travels

“Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.”

Broken Structure Crystals

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.”

Years Art Political Values Social Keys Hundred Transformation Institutions Structure Western Decades Worldview

Author:Peter Drucker

“We will soon be living in an era in which we cannot guarantee survivability of any single point. However, we can still design systems in which system destruction requires the enemy to pay the price of destroying n of n stations. If n is made sufficiently large, it can be shown that highly survivable system structures can be built.”

Ifs Made Stills Pay Enemy Design Built Destruction Structure Eras Guarantees Stations Destroying Pay The Price

Author:Paul Baran

“It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.”

Form Taxes Management Structure Assets Schemes Beneficial Money Laundering

Author:John Sweeney

“Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control.”

Wells Problem Turns Energy Technology Information Organization Structure Substance Intensity

Author:John von Neumann

“The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.”

Ifs Way Should Believe Matter I Believe Process Results Military Fields Structure Handle

Author:Ralph Abraham

“New ideas require new structures.”

Ideas Structure New Ideas

Author:Leroy Hood

“If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.”

Ifs Faces Form Numbers One Thing Thousand Mathematics Structure Size Mathematical

Author:Alexander Grothendieck

“The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.”

Reason Dies House Wind Beats Structure Oneself Refusal Blast Icy

Book:The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

“The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.”

Reality Language Structure Determine

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.”

Important Values Individual Born Development Structure Factors

Book:Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud

Source: Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud

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