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Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about idea

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire about art, nature

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about force, country, power

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about style

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about humility, wish, being, contentment

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Quote by Bette Davis about love

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

Quote by Julie Christie about marriage, people

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about power

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about heads, use, people

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, purity, voice

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, contentment

Talk about it, talk about it, and then I physically go write it and come up with the dialogue, and come up with the structure of the scene.

Quote by Trey Parker

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about flowers, nature

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure...

Quote by Talcott Parsons about evolution, knowledge

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact hence changing general statements about it and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about knowledge, body

Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about question

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about politics

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about problems

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about opinion, interest

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

Quote by Alexandra Paul about power, cars