Construction Quotes
462 quotes by 395 authors
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Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,…
— Ellen Lupton
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According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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My construction will cover the entire Universe.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might…
— Ian Rankin
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained…
— Georges Canguilhem
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The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could…
— William Zinsser
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One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. . . . We will keep on…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches…
— David Hilbert
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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle…
— Francis Parkman
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I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to…
— Anne Enright
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The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the…
— Jim Harrison
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Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal…
— William Rothenstein
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What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
— Clifford Geertz
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The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles)…
— Ollie Johnston
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Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
— Jacques Chirac
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American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this…
— G. Edward Griffin
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That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to…
— Paul Watzlawick
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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
— Elfriede Jelinek
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