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The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further… — Kate Millett
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which… — Abdoulaye Wade
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the… — Joan Didion
It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and… — Maureen Howard
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures… — Keith Devlin
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a… — Hermann Hankel
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other… — William Thurston
I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and… — Wynn Bullock
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening,… — Michael Stean
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak… — Werner Heisenberg
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered. — Jean Piaget
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack… — Lewis Thomas
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And… — Kim Stanley Robinson
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they… — Edward Bernays
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent… — Noam Chomsky
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have… — Theda Skocpol
What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will… — William Shatner
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in… — Richard Saul Wurman
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible. — Gus Hall
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before. — Judi Dench

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