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“Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.”

Ifs World Literature Structure Communism Changing The World Reasonable Propositions

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.”

Character Running Blood Human Nature Changed Essentials Structure Bones Tendencies Covered Veins Covered Up

Author:Sam Shepard

“Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.”

People Looks Different Time Example Evolution Built Horse Structure Starting Bones Classic Different Things Engineers Bats Scratches Textbooks Porpoises

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.”

Science Information Source Evolution Independent Structure Unified Inference

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.”

“History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.”

Science Time History Events Evolution Structure

Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.”

Giving Science Natural Chance Produce Materials Evolution Structure Species Complexes Association Organs Unseen Selection Novelty Natural Selection

Book:Travaux scientifiques de François Jacob

Source: Travaux scientifiques de François Jacob

“Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.”

Different Ends Might Science Taken Seeing Groups Evolution Diversity Bird Originals Structure Species Related Fancy

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.”

Different Today Form Law Science Generations Evolution Infinite Structure Species Following Diverse

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.”

Science Lying Simple Plans Evolution Diversity Structure Unity Complexes Mask

Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

“If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Writing Young Choices Conscious Structure Sentences Finding Yourself Bad Things Imitating Motifs Word Choice Sentence Structure

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy - that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure.”

People Want Inspirational Trying Mean Real Inspiration Emotion Sacrifice Emotional Serious Hard Work Organization Strategy Structure Caught Caught Up Sleeves Real Work

Author:Michelle Obama

“Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.”

People World Mind Firsts Art Today Imagination Vision Creativity Theory Perception Built Structure Carpe Diem Rockets Geometry Pyramids Cathedrals Carpe Thermodynamics

Author:Eugene S. Ferguson

“To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.”

Thinking Knows Feels Whole Artist Social Humility Pride Elements Structure Sorry Crucial I'm Sorry Humiliated Humiliate Social Structure

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.”

Giving Lasts Success Sports Discipline Pure Areas Structure Lifetime Athlete Genuine Fulfillment Motivational Sports Sincere Endeavor Best Sports

Author:Bob Cousy

“However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it!”

“Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.”

Form Science Study Information Theory Source Development Evolution Areas Bases Remains Structure Data Interpretation Theory Of Evolution

Author:Everett C. Olson

“If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.”

Ifs Doe Belief Teacher Honest Evolution Demand Structure Compromise Biology Competent Sects No Compromise

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.”

Doe Home Film Mom Structure Chaos Fulfilled Home Life Ironclads

Author:Julia Roberts

“Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.”

Literature Democracy Violence Structure Democratic Western Consumerism Convenience

Author:Edward Bond

“It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.”

“The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.”

“The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.”

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Practice structure determines success.”

Practice Basketball Structure Determine Coaching Basketball Coaching

Author:Bobby Knight

“I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.”

Spirit Design Remains Structure Architecture Naked Ass Clarity Ruins Architect Bad Ass Badass Architecture And Design Architecture Design Clarity Of Thought

Author:Tadao Ando

“The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

War Subjects Objects Victory Structure Waging War

Author:George Orwell

“Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.”

Important Successful Garden Structure Colour Consideration Components

Author:Piet Oudolf

“Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.”

People Giving Looks Kind Enough Beautiful Structure Credit Bones Obsessed Shore Entertaining Jersey Really Beautiful Jersey Shore Snooki

Author:Margaret Cho

“You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”

World War Whole Doors Structure War Of The Worlds Kicks World War Ii World War I Rotten World War 2 World War 1 Crashing Down

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.”

Giving Mind Believe Heart I Believe Depends Future Structure Developing Nonviolence Heart And Mind Imaginative Hope For The Future

Book:The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

Source: The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

“Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.”

“As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.”

Long Universe Brain Mystery Reflection Structure

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.”

Persons Brain Genius Structure Idiot

Author:Ashley Montagu

“Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.”

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner.”

Men Has Beens America Black White Talking Democracy Dangerous Sight Structure Corners Threatening Ghetto Around The Corner Keep Talking Northerners White Power Black Ghetto

Author:Malcolm X

“New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.”

Problem Black White New York Youth Victim Structure Killing Sociological Black Youth

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.”

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.”

Thinking May Ideas Reality Lasts Divine Structure Careful Golden Wander Landscape Analysis Immortal Maps Be Careful Savages

Author:Alan Moore

“For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.”

Play Light Fun Structure Behave Unconscious Void Illuminating Deep Meaning

Book:Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

Source: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

“Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.”

World May Helping Form Joy Creativity Courage Creative Creation Structure Profound Realization Spheres New World Minors Fortuitous

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?"] That is simple, my friend. It is because politics is more difficult than physics.”

Men Mind Mean Has Beens Science Political Difficult Simple My Friends Structure Physics Destroying Atoms Drs

Author:Albert Einstein

“The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.”

“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.”

Men Needs Moments Goal Steps Support Awareness Inspirational Life Habit Window Structure New Habits

Author:Mark Twain

“Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.”

Way Courses Goal Hours Challenges Decision Support Particular Inspirational Life Circumstances Majors Structure Mood Manage Staying Target Vigilant Declaring Support You

Author:Mark Twain

“The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.”

Firsts Consciousness Structure Collapse Impervious

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

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

“If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.”

Source: A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia

“Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart is still beating the contrary (i.e., in opposite directions in the different vessels) movement of the blood is observed in the vessels-though with difficulty-so that the circulation of the blood is clearly exposed.”

“The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in the game are. But understanding the rules is just a trivial preliminary on the long route from being a novice to being a grand master. So even if we understand all the laws of physics, then exploring their consequences in the everyday world where complex structures can exist is a far more daunting task, and that's an inexhaustible one I'm sure.”

“No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.”

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