Structure Quotes
1538 quotes by 1183 authors
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Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of…
— Patricia Hill Collins
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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first…
— O. Henry
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter.…
— Terence McKenna
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In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
— Scarlett Thomas
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But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly…
— Connie Willis
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You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by…
— Vaclav Havel
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These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words…
— Walter Mosley
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
— Abbie Hoffman
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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure…
— Voltaire
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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is,…
— Carl Sagan
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Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the…
— Michael Crichton
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It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real…
— Amelie Nothomb
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As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all…
— Martin Amis
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...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear,…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.…
— Frank O'Hara
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a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just…
— Shulamith Firestone
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Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be'…
— William P. Young
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Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break…
— Henry Cloud
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