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Structure Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
- As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If…
- The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
- Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to…
- If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic…
- The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.
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- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but… — Michael Behe
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- There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned. — Sade Adu
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- We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of… — Edward de Bono
- Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also… — Walther Bothe
- It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or… — David Bowie