Structures Quotes
341 quotes by 290 authors
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I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical
— Clifford Geertz
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Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to…
— Peter Senge
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Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of a…
— Werner Arber
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'…
— C. Wright Mills
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According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.
— Michel Chossudovsky
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On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations'…
— Jenny Shipley
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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…
— Alfred Korzybski
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Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is…
— Starhawk
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The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive…
— Francois Jacob
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The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
— Kenneth Rexroth
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental…
— William Sloane Coffin
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as…
— Ted Nelson
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More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners…
— Marc Andreessen
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Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers,
— Jonathan Ive
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Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
— Patricia Hill Collins
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Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their…
— Elliott Sharp
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Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes…
— Bill Mollison
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There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture. If you're…
— Jacque Fresco
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Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can…
— Ken Wilber
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We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to…
— James R. Thompson
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