#structures

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any. ↗

— Merton Miller

#any #capital #class #could #data

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

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind. ↗

— George Woodcock

#any #bound #certain #come #depend

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#consumerism #convenience #democracy #democratic #domestic

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#essentially #memory #music #primitive #structures

Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures. ↗

— Frank Hornby

#gives #secrets #structures #wonderful #world

You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#area #back #been #being #burned

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy. ↗

— Jil Sander

#also #around #century #cloud #diverse

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#becomes #capability #carry #critical #cyber