“ Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high, Where scepter'd angels held their residence, And sat as princes. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ While we are all subject to large social forces that shape our lives and the lives of our children, we also have the capacity as individuals to make conscious and intentional choices about how we're going to relate to our circumstances and to the era in which we find ourselves… ”
- Myla and Jon Kabat Zinn- Copy
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“ I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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“ In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. ”
- Lee R. Raymond- Copy
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“ My struggle was only for democracy in Iraq and for Kurdish rights, sometimes in the shape of autonomy, sometimes of federation in the framework of a democratic Iraq. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame. ”
- Klaus Kinski- Copy
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“ Before I ever think of a design I have to select the fabrics, so fabrics actually are the inspiration for any collection. ”
- Geoffrey Beene- Copy
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“ Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. ”
- Ruth Hubbard- Copy
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“ High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ”
- Jack Kinder- Copy
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“ The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn, dropped face — as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding and thought. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. ”
- Benjamin Lee Whorf- Copy
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“ I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life. ”
- Paul Bremer- Copy
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“ Theoretican Talk Deciphered #1: 'It is a flexible framework' - > 'It does nothing useful on its own.'. ”
- Craig Bruce- Copy
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“ The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency. ”
- Lee R. Raymond- Copy
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“ The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system. ”
- Abraham Robinson- Copy
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“ No stance is without presuppositions, for to be without them is to be without a foundation. Presuppositions are our guidelines to truth; they undergird our values, standards, and ideals; they form the framework within which we move. Yet presuppositions by their very nature can not be proved or demonstrated; they can only be affirmed… ”
- Clyde L. Manschreck- Copy
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“ What would happen if we accept God's gift of tithing when we accept God's gift of money? If we give off the top, we claim our place as 'givers' before we admit that we are 'consumers.' That puts our priorities in order and establishes a framework of gratitude around the rest of our financial affairs. ”
- Henry Morris- Copy
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“ What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework that to me is the art of photography. ”
- Berenice Abbott- Copy
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“ I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change. ”
- Liv Ullmann- Copy
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“ No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms conditioned mind. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
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“ Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. ”
- Fernand Braudel- Copy
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“ When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. ”
- Daniel Bell- Copy
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