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Quotes About Structure

Muita gente pensa que a arte é a grande sustentação da música, mas não é verdade. Há regras de lógica, de engenharia e de física subjacentes a todo o lado criativo da música.
~ John Powell
Architecture… the adaptation of form to resist force.
~ John Ruskin
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
~ John Ruskin
For decades the social structures that created nuclear families, that kept families whole and together, had eroded, had finally broken down completely. Broken homes made broken homes made broken homes.
~ John Shirley
Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
~ John Stuart Blackie
There was, and still is, another Empire State Building in Manhattan, the existence of which, never very widely known in the first place, was eclipsed by the glory of the mighty structure at Thirty-fourth Street. The other Empire State Building, at 640 Broadway on the southeast corner of Bleecker Street, is a far different structure from its uptown namesake.
~ John Tauranac
Time and time again the mast has been struck by flashes with a potential of 10 million volts, only to be dissipated by the intricate steel structure into the ground.
~ John Tauranac
What is currently under discussion in our national hysteria about failing academic performance misses the point. Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.
~ John Taylor Gatto
I have come to believe that government monopoly schools are structurally unreformable. They cannot function if their central myths are exposed and abandoned.
~ John Taylor Gatto
People can change, but systems cannot without losing their structural integrity.
~ John Taylor Gatto
As escolas ensinam exatamente o que se pretende que ensinem, e fazem isso muito bem: como ser um bom egípcio e permanecer no seu lugar da pirâmide.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.
~ John Taylor Gatto
In a near anarchy, the only law is to maintain order. My
~ John Varley
Under such a unified court structure, author Jerome R. Corsi foresees an immediate challenge to First Amendment free speech laws, as well as the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. As he explains in Human Events
~ John W. Whitehead
If things had started over a misunderstanding, some language barrier or even a dramatic physical difference, he might've forgiven some of the things they did. But the way they acted made it clear they not only didn't care about anyone else, but they also relished the horrors they committed. Is that how they keep score within their social structure?
~ John Walker
he felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought.
~ John Williams
One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical church.
~ John Willis Zumwalt
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
~ John Yoo
To symbolize is to express time consciousness, for the symbol embodies the structure of time
~ John Zerzan
When meter is honored over thythm, line over syntax, form over structure, even the most prodigious manipulation of traditional patterns may be rendered purely decorative.
~ Ellen Bryant Voigt
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~ Ellen Miles
Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.
~ Ellen Raskin
The holding up against collapse often appears in the shoulders and upper back (Lowen, 1975). Some tensions develops there to resist the tendency to collapse. The collapse in the chest is compensated for with considerable hardness in the chest area, which is one of the structure's telltale signs. A subtle expression of low energy in the eyes and mouth is often seen. Frequently, the jaw is retracted, giving the appearance of being "weak
~ Elliot Greene
Although this is a reasonable use for massage, people with an achieving rigid structure must, because of their pattern, see it as the only reason. Ironically, this particular structure of rigidity rejects any good feeling or pleasure that does not come from their own actions
~ Elliot Greene