Structural Quotes
133 quotes by 116 authors
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During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change…
— Michelle Bachelet
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When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
— Christopher Alexander
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When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after…
— Noam Chomsky
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Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
— Karl Abraham
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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…
— Jacques Monod
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and…
— Ezra Pound
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Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament,…
— Frank Chodorov
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It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are…
— Linus Pauling
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It's very encouraging to see the structural changes that the RNC has made this past year in engaging communities on the ground. Recognizing that the…
— S. E. Cupp
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Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some…
— Barack Obama
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising…
— Paul Krugman
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Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there…
— Steven Chu
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the…
— Oscar Romero
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By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every…
— Noam Chomsky
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The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the…
— Jeanne Gang
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Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks.
— Demetri Martin
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Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,
— Julian Bond
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more…
— Victor Turner
Who Wrote These Structural Quotes
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