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“They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.”

Figures Structure Multiple Constraints

Author:Demetri Martin

“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.”

People Thinking Feels Whole Stories Shows Feelings Dream Past Fall Waiting Rocks Loneliness Structure Winter Bones Awful Hills Landscape Timelessness

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.”

Years Ideas Able Lasts Directors Structure Democratic Including National Intelligence

Author:Jane Harman

“Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors”

Men Has Beens Situation Struggle Stage Ideals Structure Strive Liberation Contradiction Concrete Existential Oppressed Initials Be A Man Oppressors Pedagogy Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

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

Roles Path Focus Missing Essentials Structure Plant Visuals Gardener

Author:Janet Macunovich

“Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men, refusing to admit that these organizational structures are needed, live in states of chaos and disunity. The tragedy of this fact becomes evident when we realize that many of the successful systems of organization under which the godly men work and which the godly men refuse to accept are biblically based.”

“Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

“Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that must eventually be unwound. The distortions degrade the general standard of living, and the economy goes into a recession (call that an incomplete cleansing). Or it goes into a depression - wherein the entire sickly structure comes unglued.”

Government Causes Economy Taxes Standards Structure Regulation Currency Inflation Intervention Incomplete Distortion Recessions Degrade Standards Of Living Cleansing Government Intervention

Author:Doug Casey

“Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.”

“Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.”

Men World Humans Self Home Force Cities Existence Modern Human Nature Creating Gains And Love Structure Possession Deeper Missions Chiefs Visible Civics Resumes Modern Man Love And Nature

Author:Lewis Mumford

“For you to believe that there is no major world conspiracy which involves a small number of people manipulating humanity through a hierarchical structure of control toward a New World Order, shows you have, in actual fact, not looked genuinely into the abundance of well-researched information on world conspiracy to see if there is one!”

People Ifs World Believe Wells Facts Shows Humanity Order Numbers Information Majors Structure Abundance New World Conspiracy New World Order World Order Small Numbers

Author:David Icke

“As an independent filmmaker, to develop the money and the financing and the structure and the whole process, and then promoting them and traveling with them, which is a part of the process that I've always enjoyed and I've learned a great deal from.”

Whole Process Deals Independent Structure Enjoyed Filmmaker I've Learned Promoting Financing

Author:Todd Haynes

“It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A lot of the mental disorders are initially things that are adaptive. Like even OCD, it's good to sort of have structure and have certain rituals but when it gets to be extreme then it becomes problematic.”

People Happens Certain Structure Extremes Ritual Disorder Ocd Mental Disorder Adaptive

Author:H. A. Berlin

“If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.”

Ifs Way Feels Ends Chance Decision Team Members Structure Meetings One Way Discussion Dread Participation Arbitrary Chances Are Wasted Time Team Member Haphazard

Author:Martin Zwilling

“I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.”

Thinking Lessons Structure Incentives

Author:Richard Thaler

“I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.”

Way Mind I Can Ideas Running Differences Perfect Results Tests Structure Improvement Experiments Invention Shops Devices Touching Constructive Turbines

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of the real world, often in ways no one could have envisioned before the theory was developed.”

World Way Real Turns Understanding Rich Theory Structure Significant Mathematical Internals Real World Implications

Author:William Thurston

“It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects”

“Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.”

Giving Felt Pleasure Knowing Structure Engineering Engineering Inspirational

Author:Cecil Balmond

“It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.”

Ifs Courses Steps Fields Structure Physics Eras Theoretical Steps Forward Combining Clerks Maxwell Theoretical Physics

Author:Albert Einstein

“We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.”

Art Modern Subjects Structure Describing Crude Variables Modern Science

Author:Terence McKenna

“If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.”

Ifs Ideas Reading Habit Structure

Author:Charlie Munger

“A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.”

Men Humans May Whole Understanding Ego Concepts Structure Deeds Mislead Aggravation Degrade Demolish

Author:Muhammad Iqbal

“Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.”

World Kind Has Beens Facts Problem Bigs Individual Modern Civilization Members Benefits Organization Structure Contact Modern World Fellowship Big Problems Julius

Author:Julius Nyerere

“We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.”

Country Force Economic Bases Structure Democratic Our Country

Author:Ibrahim Babangida

“The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.”

“The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.”

“Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.”

Knows Art Philosophy Age Moving Law Culture Universe Mathematics Structure Code Complexity Openness Chemicals Genes Phases Domain Confined Philosophy Of Religion Moving Out Art Dance

Author:Terence McKenna

“And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.”

Firsts Humans Moments Happens Language Childhood Civilization Structure Species Notion Realization Artificial Passing Away Human Civilization

Author:Terence McKenna

“[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.”

Way Economic Building Structure Planning Hungry Regulation Intervention Totalitarianism Power Hungry

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.”

People Ifs Thinking World Hate Views Structure Disappear Sheer Thrill World View Hallucinogens

Author:Terence McKenna

“So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.”

Humans Looks Dream Community Willing Capable Structure Mess Aspiration Contrast Submit Fifth Columns

Author:Terence McKenna

“As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward and it's all linear.”

Way Moving Next Realizing Player Instruments Structure Notes Moving Forward Melody Chords Linear Intervals Navigate Vertical

Author:David Sanborn

“The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.”

Mind Reason Computer Program Structure Formal

Author:John Searle

“A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.”

Needs Home Reality Computer Structure Broadcasting Terminal

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.”

Source: Syntactic Structures

“I know I'm not great at structure and story.”

Knows Stories Structure

Author:Jane Espenson

“Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.”

Kind Matter Certain Order Social Pleasure Shots Structure Assuming Innocent Desirable Domination Social Order

Author:Cornel West

“For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.”

“There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.”

Kind Art Individual Stars Creative Example Expression Originals Structure Response Theoretical Creative Work Catalogues Maxwell

Book:The World of Mathematics

Source: The World of Mathematics

“The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.”

Ideals Remains Structure

Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard

“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

Different War Past Effort Principles Poverty Groups Subjects Objects Ignorance Victory Bases Structure East Versions Asia Ruling Starvation East Asia

Author:George Orwell

“I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.”

Way Different Song Written Structure Tricks Crafts

Author:Taylor Swift

“My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.”

Knows Children Kids Age School Parent Military Structure Divorced Military School Divorced Parents

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Hard Play Audience Structure Plot

Author:David Mamet

“Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.”

Kind Technology Industry Mass Connections Structure Critical Driven Cards Apples Bus Ecosystems Critical Mass

Author:Bill Gates

“Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.”

World Use Language Structure

Book:Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

“What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an assimilationist thing. It's like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I'm more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I'm into is making the world different for me to live in.”

World Want Important Different Whole Girl Rocks Revolution Band Structure Radicalism

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe.”

Fashion Structure Shoulders Wardrobe 1930s Pads Andrea Love Fashion I Love Fashion

Author:Eva Green

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