Reconstruction Quotes
112 Reconstruction quotes by 109 unique authors
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Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary…
— Edwin O. Reischauer
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Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic…
— Alan Coren
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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
— Allen Ginsberg
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The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going…
— Lindsey Graham
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
— Roger Daltrey
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Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the…
— Stephen Harper
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I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
— Ernie Harwell
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In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct…
— Jesse Jackson
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I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
— Charles Kuralt
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So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the…
— James Madison
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Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.
— Evita Peron
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The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials…
— John Podhoretz
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Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
— Gloria Steinem
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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to…
— Lech Walesa
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The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic…
— Anne Frank
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction…
— Adrienne Rich
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protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage…
— Naomi Klein
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are…
— Victor Hugo
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Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
— Umberto Eco
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All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
— Margaret Atwood
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However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our…
— Paulo Coelho
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Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess…
— Geoffrey Elton
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