"I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change."
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"They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that."
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"I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction."
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"They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things."
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"Burma is not yet a full-fledged democracy. We have started working on the road to full democracy. We have a lot of things to do in order to build a democratic structure and to be become a full-fledged democracy."
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"Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building."
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"When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds."
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"The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of."
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"I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other."
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"It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood."
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"Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj."
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"A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within."
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"Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built."
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"Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison."
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"The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis."
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"One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from."
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"Play is free movement within a more rigid structure."
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"In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science."
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"We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems."
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"Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?"
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