#structure

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. Not that I'm saying a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that...It does take a father though. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#stability #structure #woman #family

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures. ↗

— Manning Marable

#crisis #development #only #political #politics

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#deal #destiny #even #images #moods

The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business. ↗

— Antonio Perez

#business #cost #declining #different #digital

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#certain #confirm #formulated #implied #language

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#antagonistic #circle #circles #closed #contemporary

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. ↗

— Andy Stern

#any #bargain #common #divides #each

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#collapsed #constitution #economic #feeling #germany

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#away #build #businesses #channel #highest