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«Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.»
«A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.»
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
architectural, justification, sculptural, structure
«Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.»
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
| Keywords:
anti, demonic, gene, genes, legal, legal system, structure, teachings, the system, topple, topples
«Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.»
Author: Walter Gropius
(Architect)
| Keywords:
anew, architectonic, composite, composites, crystal, entity, Faith in the Future, imbue, imbued, painters, salon, sculptors, structure, the Crystal, workers
«Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.»
Author: Brigham Young
(President)
| Keywords:
build up, ears, enter, glories, invite, listeners, structure, structured, structuring, tear, tearing down, tear down
«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.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bloom, committee, committees, organic, scattering, structure, wilts
«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.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
construct, constructing, constructs, deeper, fabric, fabrics, foundation, foundations, higher, humility, loftier, lofty, structure, structured, structuring, vast
«If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
admiration, called, In Me, religious, reveal, science, so far, structure, structured, structuring, unbounded
«Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
| Keywords:
areas, bottleneck, delegate, delegates, delegating, down-and-out, reverse, structure
«From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| Keywords:
brittle, curtain, in trouble, iron curtain, reminders, structure
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