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“Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.”

Should Facts Special Elements Structure Statements Intimate Logical Emphasis Theoretical

Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

“In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.”

Eye Process Black Function Structure Boxes Cells Biology Digestion Immunity Black Boxes Structure And Function

Author:Michael Behe

“The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.”

Ifs Way Doe Important Energy Term Imagination Worship Function Important Things Structure Cease Primaries Sunday Pastor My Imagination Pulpit Worship God

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.”

Taken Psychology Accounts Structure Mathematical Logical Linguistics Epistemology

Author:Jean Piaget

“Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.”

Logic Mathematics Structure Sensual Linguistics Linguists

Author:Jean Piaget

“People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.”

People Should Trying Book Ideas Courses Structure Very Good Theologian Good Book Brilliant Ideas

Author:John Polkinghorne

“On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.”

Practice Century Policy New York Grew Grew Up Bases Structure Presses University Financial London Foreign Policy Twentieth Century

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.”

Writing Please Structure Money And Power

Author:Sun Ra

“I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.”

Knows White Class Structure

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.”

Ifs Whole Certain Dies Design Logic Structure Architecture Caves Graphic Graphic Design

Author:Paul Rand

“The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.”

Kind Reason Passion Literature Structure Instinct Assumption Appetite Digestion

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

Character Nations Imagination Four Human Nature Built Independence Structure Individuality Individualism Initiative Cornerstones Character Education Personality Flaws

Author:Eddie Rickenbacker

“In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.”

Believe Belief Grows Our Lives Development Absolutes Structure Complicated Assumption Absolute Truth

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.”

Ifs Matter Problem Force President Decision Responsibility Areas Pressure Down And Structure Add Reverse Delegates Delegation Bottlenecks

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.”

Heart Stills Soul Night Felt Vision Color Painting Structure Intellect Radical Bridges Intensity Vans Spine Distortion Shiver Cafes Pathos Density New Vision Starry Night

Author:Jerry Saltz

“We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.”

Perfect Cutting Discipline Shapes Structure Bones Geometry Haircuts

Author:Vidal Sassoon

“What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.”

Body Force Space Materials Shapes Structure Variation

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.”

Want Should Two States Facts Accepting Willing Majority Structure Palestinian Negotiation Jordan

Author:Charles Schumer

“Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.”

Should Film Young Deals Battle Structure Makers

Author:Martin Scorsese

“If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Certain Groups Modern Scene Structure Scripts Staying Stay Strong Improvisation Modern Day Ethnic Groups Beautiful Day

Author:Martin Scorsese

“My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.”

Enough Voice Instruments Structure Guitar Melody Good Enough Guitarist

Author:Paul Simon

“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.”

Feels Energy Women Female Structure Males Caged Metallic

Author:Bjork

“Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.”

Use Voice Structure Splits Passive Unnecessary Tense Inconsistent Blisters Infinitive Passive Voice

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.”

Class Concerned Structure Nigeria Prestige

Author:Sade Adu

“What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.”

Wells May Reality Eye Meditation Structure Disclosure

Book:Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book

Source: Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book

“Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.”

Men Book Bigs Four Events Cost Structure Fantastic Spiders Momentum Rail Spider Man Pacing Crossover Big Events Fantastic Four

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.”

Needs Writing Reason Form Process Tvs Structure Storytelling

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

Inspirational Reality Today Nature Scientist Relation Mathematics Structure Experiments Wander Mathematical Equations Risk Management Mathematics And Science Science Physics Mathematical Equations

Author:Nikola Tesla

“With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.”

Writing Faces Comedy Structure Sentences Staring Birthday Sarcastic Sixty Definite Paragraph Sentence Structure

Author:James Thurber

“The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.”

Bigs Running Five Four Hollywood Structure Studios

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”

Ifs World Mind Humans Ends Evil Creating Structure Human Mind Dysfunction

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.”

Performances Structure Highlights

Author:Marisa Tomei

“We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.”

Play Beautiful Culture Civilization Structure Notion Pops Surface Ignorant Site Fragments Living On Shepherds Environmental Stewardship

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.”

Ideas Structure Come Up Melody

Author:Steven Tyler

“The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.”

Science Universe Plans Built Structure Profound Intellect Symmetry

Author:Paul Valery

“There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Doe Father Belief Nations Religious Built Structure Founding Religious Belief

Author:Jesse Ventura

“I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.”

Giving Artist Challenges My Own Modern Style Personality Creating Clothes Structure Boxes Adore Outside The Box

Author:Vera Wang

“The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.”

People Running Particular Models Structure Agendas Business Models

Author:Joss Whedon

“Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.”

“In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.”

People Whole Water Class Century Mass Structure Productions Revolutionary Urban Spinning Cotton Proletariat 18th Century Jenny Mass Production New Class

Author:A. N. Wilson

“Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.”

Results Share Cost Structure Drawing Budgets Ads Blogs

Author:Fred Wilson

“We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.”

Needs Has Beens Order Imagination Break Creativity Particular Structure Intuition Temporary Sequence Sequence Of Events

Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.”

Source: Works

“Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.”

People Trying Religion Enjoy Perfect Tears Glory Ears Structure Invites Listeners

Author:Brigham Young

“If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.”

Ifs Poor Worry Changed Structure Owners Disenfranchised

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.”

Beautiful Ideals Structure Objectives Fulfillment Amendments Ordinances

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.”

Information Structure Various Valuable Nuclear Reactions Radiation Coincidence Nucleus Coupling

Author:Walther Bothe

“One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.”

Has Beens Made Dream Modern Movement Building Structure Architecture Site Persistent Elusive

Author:Martin Filler

“It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.”

People Sometimes Situation Pieces Standards Intelligent Structure Traditional Judgement Recognizing Judgemental

Author:David Bowie

“Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.”

Should Fun Taught Discipline Structure Boring Programming Topics Covering Computing Algorithms Databases

Author:Geoff Mulgan

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