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- All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts… — Albert Einstein
- The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods… — Paul Carus
- The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front… — Stanley Bing
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance… — Thomas Jefferson
- We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,… — David Foreman
- Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser