Partially Ordered Sets

Famous quotes containing the words partially, ordered and/or sets:

    Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals—just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.
    Ana Castillo (b. 1953)

    Music sets up ladders,
    it makes us invisible,
    it sets us apart,
    it lets us escape;
    but from the visible
    there is no escape.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)