Structure Quotes
1538 quotes by 1183 authors
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Entropy is the price of structure.
— Ilya Prigogine
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Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
— Noam Chomsky
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People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and…
— Haruki Murakami
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She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a…
— Thomas Hardy
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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had…
— Thomas Hardy
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Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile…
— Neal Stephenson
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Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion…
— Michel Foucault
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The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours
— Eric Berne
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If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
— Jack Zipes
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I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life…
— Paul Tillich
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I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.
— Karen Marie Moning
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People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those…
— Tom Robbins
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They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
— Tawni O'Dell
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I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent…
— Lauren Oliver
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
— Alan Lightman
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Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as…
— Gustave Eiffel
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No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate…
— Joseph Paxton
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Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.
— Prince William of Hesse-Kassel
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A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together-a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else.…
— Stephen King
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The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled,…
— Linda Grant
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