"Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart."
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"Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind."
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"Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society."
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"Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick."
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"Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche"
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"Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure."
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"Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe."
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"If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody."
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"It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces"
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"Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are."
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"Rules of taste enforce structures of power."
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"The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact."
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"The form is the possibility of the structure."
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"What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself."
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"Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs."
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"That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?"
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"Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought."
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"Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society."
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"France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures."
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"In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that. Those policies are designed to turn state power into an instrument that works for the wealthy. Maybe there are some crumbs for the rest of the population, maybe not. But that's given."
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