{"quotes":[{"text":"Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["citizen","citizenship","danger","darkness","destruction","equality","fairness","god","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","mountain","opportunities","people","power","power-structure","restructure","structure"],"id":1160,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Mankind has uncovered two extremely efficient theories: one that describes our universe's structure (Einstein's gravity: the theory of general relativity), and one that describes everything our universe contains (quantum field theory), and these two theories won't talk to each other.","author":"Christophe Galfard","tags":["describe","description","efficient","einstein","gravity","mankind","quantum-field-theory","quantum-mechanics","relativity","science","structure","theories","theory","theory-of-general-relativity","uncover","uncovered","universe"],"id":20763,"author_id":"Christophe+Galfard"},{"text":"In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.","author":"Scarlett Thomas","tags":["reality","structure"],"id":24397,"author_id":"Scarlett+Thomas"},{"text":"How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["communism","czech","definition","enemy","evil","forgiveness","hate","meaning","novel","peace","structure"],"id":25730,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able chemists, is beginning to be abandoned and forgotten; and one can predict that the day is not far in the future when a sufficient collection of facts will permit determination of the internal architecture of molecules. A series of experiments directed toward such a goal is the object of this paper.","author":"Wilhelm Körner","tags":["atoms","chemistry","dogma","matter","molecules","physics","science","structure"],"id":39169,"author_id":"Wilhelm+K%C3%B6rner"},{"text":"The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.","author":"Pringle Kennedy","tags":["achievement","amazing","atheist","christian","culture","direction","freedom","freedom-of-speech","glory","height","hindu","history","human","humanity","inspirational","jewish","kennedy","lessons","mankind","muslim","people","pringle","society","structure","struggle","writer"],"id":44983,"author_id":"Pringle+Kennedy"},{"text":"Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.","author":"Mary E. DeMuth","tags":["control","controlling","stability","structure"],"id":51654,"author_id":"Mary+E.+DeMuth"},{"text":"You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["law","maturation","structure","values"],"id":56849,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the dispenser?'More than possible. Likely.","author":"Nick Harkaway","tags":["error","government","idiocy","law","structure","stupid","system"],"id":62476,"author_id":"Nick+Harkaway"},{"text":"Character is like 'Structural Integrity' in the field of engineering.A construction is believed to have structural integrity when it can withstand 'impact' from anywhere and anything, functioning adequately for its desired purposes and service life, until a physical collapse proves otherwise.'Integrity' springs from the original Latin root 'integrum', which means 'Intact'.A man has INTEGRITY when he remains INTACT, despite the IMPACT of forces that seek to sidetrack him.He will never confuse 'what is' with 'what ought to be', EVEN WHEN 'what is' will work in his favour.A man who will choose, not what the world forces his hands to choose, but what aligns with his destiny and will propel him to become what he is meant to become.Such men are few, such men should be me and you.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["building","character","choice","construction","destiny","engineering","favour","impact","intact","integrity","life","olaotan-fawehinmi","purpose","structural-integrity","structure"],"id":64124,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}