C Quotes
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“Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.”
“Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788
“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”
Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder
“Constituye una paradoja criminal rehusar a la mujer toda actividad pública, cerrarle las carreras masculinas, proclamar en todos los dominios su incapacidad y confiarle, al mismo tiempo, la empresa más delicada y más grave de cuantas existen...la formación de un ser humano.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.”
Source: Tog on Interface
“Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.”
“Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.”
“Constraint inspires creativity”
Source: Things A Little Bird Told Me
“Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained by circumstances to act a certain way. For example, should we invade ISIS? Can we invade ISIS? What would it take to invade ISIS? Once you ask that question you discover the price of that option and then you take a look at American politics and see that the country is probably not prepared to invest the 2 to 3 million people that it would take to defeat ISIS and the insurgency afterwards. All right, so that's not going to happen.”
“Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy and stupid are not concepts used in forecasting. When people say they're really stupid or they're crazy, that's laziness. That means I don't want to think through their position or about what they're really going to do.”
“Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.”
“Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.”
Source: Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
“Constraints don't limit innovation—they enhance it.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.”
“Construcción de La Nación (El Soneto)
Nación no significa tierra,
Nación no significa frontera.
Nación significa sensibilidad y cordura,
No significa entretener la disparidad.
Nación significa no costumbre muerta,
Nación no significa tradición.
Nación significa razón y aceptación,
Nación significa intención de inclusión.
Nación no significa ley,
No significa política de animales.
Nación significa una bondad genuina,
Nación significa ciudadanos responsables.
Disfrazados de nación, no actuéis como tribal.
Nación sin estrecheces es tierra universal.”
Source: Poesía Humanitaria: Cien Sonetos Para Mi Familia Mundial
“Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.”
“Construct your life plans before satan attempts to destruct you with his death plots. I know this for sure; he is not in to heal! He just came to kill, to steal and destroy! Satan is not wise, it is only crafty!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Constructing a roof for all your storms seems impossible until you construct a lovely home”
“Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.”
“Constructing great business empires is not a sudden but a gradual process. Take small steps daily, and year by year, you will make huge progress. Aim for success and do your best. One day, you will be proud of yourself.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.”
“Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.”
“Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the act of construction. At the point in time concrete materials are assembled and erected, the architecture we have been looking for becomes part of the real world.”
“Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner.”
“Construction of the SS Morro Castle was begun by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in January of 1929 for the New York and Cuba Mail Steam Ship Company, better known as the Ward Line. The ship was launched in March of 1930, followed in May by the construction of her sister ship the SS Oriente. Both ships were 508 feet long and had a breath of almost 80 feet and weighed in at 11,520 gross tons (GRT). The ships were driven by General Electric turbo generators, which supplied the necessary electrical current to two propulsion motors. Having twin screws both ships could maintain a cruising speed of 20 knots. State of the art, each ship was elegantly fitted out to accommodate 489 passengers and had a complement of 240 officers and crew. It is estimated that the ships cost approximately $5 million each, of which 75% was given to the company as a low cost government loan to be repaid over twenty years.
The SS Morro Castle was named for the fortress that guards the entrance to Havana Bay. On the evening of September 5, 1934 Captain Robert Willmott had his dinner delivered to his quarters. Shortly thereafter, he complained of stomach trouble and shortly after that, died of an apparent heart attack. With this twist of fate the command of the ship went to the Chief Mate, William Warms. During the overnight hours, with winds increasing to over 30 miles per hour, the ship continued along the Atlantic coast towards New York harbor. Early on September 8, 1934 the ship had what started as a minor fire in a storage locker. With the increasing winds, the fire quickly intensified causing the ship to burn down to the waterline, killing a total of 137 passengers and crew members. Many passengers died when they jumped into the water with the cork life preservers breaking their necks and killing them instantly on impact. Only half of the ships 12 lifeboats were launched and then losing power the ship drifted, with heavy onshore winds and a raging sea the hapless ship ground ashore near Asbury Park. Hard aground she remained there for several months as a morbid tourist attraction. On March 14, 1935 the ship was towed to Gravesend Bay, New York and then to Baltimore, MD, where she was scrapped.
The Chief Mate Robert Warms and Chief Engineer Eban Abbott as well as the Ward Line vice-president Henry Cabaud were eventually indicted on various charges, including willful negligence. All three were convicted and sent to jail, however later an appeals court later overturned the ship’s officers convictions and instead placed much of the blame on the dead Captain Willmott. Go figure….”
“Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.”
“Constructive Alternativism: the idea that, while there is only one true reality, reality is always experienced from one or another perspective.
What was realised by Kelly was that every individual acts, reacts and behaves according to how they view their own reality. Each person views another or an event in an entirely different way to anyone else. But what forms that basic reality was of course needed to be understood.”
“Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.”
“Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.”
“Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.”
“Constructive criticism is legitimate, but when it escalates to vitriol, it affects us all, because celebrities and influencers are part of the collective consciousness.”
“Constructive criticism is the mere acceptance that other's care about the collective common outcome”
Source: Honourable Defection
“Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.”
Source: Mrs. Miniver
“Constructive feedback is leadership gift and driver of organisational behavioural change”
“Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a stable prosperity, a prosperity based not on aid, but on mutually beneficial economic contacts.”
Source: The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan
“Constructiveness is the human way.”
“Constructivist learning experiences may vary in effectiveness, as some learners may require more guidance and support than others, potentially leading to disparities in learning outcomes.”
“Constructs like race will decline in relevance in a roboticized world. That how well one human subset or community - a race, a nationality, a religion - is doing will be secondary to how well humanity in general is doing in face of the robot revolution.”
“Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.”
“Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.”
“Construir es colaborar con la tierra, imprimir una marca humana en un paisaje que se modificará así para siempre [...] Fundar bibliotecas equivalía a construir graneros públicos, amasar reservas para un invierno del espíritu que, a juzgar por ciertas señales y a pesar mío, veo venir.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Construyamos puentes, no muros.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Construyo mis recuerdos con el presente. Estoy desechado, abandonado en el presente. En vano trato de alcanzar el pasado; no puedo escaparme.”
“Consuelo's appearance set her apart from the others, and the nuns, sure that this was not accidental but a sign of benevolent divine will, spared no effort in cultivating her faith, in the hope she would decide to take her vows and serve the Church; al their efforts, however, came to naught before the girl's instinctive rejection. She made the attempt in good faith, but never succeeded in accepting the tyrannical god the nuns preached to her about; she preferred a more joyful, maternal, and compassionated god.
"That is the Most Holy Virgin Mary," the nuns explained to her.
"She is God?"
"No, she is the Mother of God."
"Yes, but who has the say in heaven, God or his Mama?”
Source: Eva Luna
“Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.”
“Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.”
“Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.”
“Consulates monitor American welfare programs and make sure Mexicans make the most of them. Some programs are closed to illegal immigrants but food stamps (the program is known since 2008 as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP) are not. Many illegal immigrants hesitate to apply for them for fear their status will be discovered and they will be deported. Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro of Santa Ana in Orange County, California, went on Spanish-language television to tell Mexicans it was safe to apply. “It won’t affect your immigration status,” he explained. More than 1,200 people applied for food stamps the next day.
Consulates also have a program called Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows), which publicizes American hospitals and clinics that treat illegal immigrants for free. In 2007, the consul in Los Angeles proudly noted that 300,000 Mexicans in the area had benefited from the consulate’s medical advice. Cost to taxpayers for medical treatment for illegal immigrants in Los Angeles Country runs to about $400 million a year.
In 2005, as it does every year, the consulate in Los Angeles gave the school district nearly 100,000 textbooks. The history books are the ones used in Mexico. They refer to the American flag as “the enemy flag” and say “we love our country because it is ours.” In Salinas, California, the consul general for the area organized a “Mexican Flag Day” to promote Mexican patriotism at an American public school.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Consult as you may your masters; their musings. But look within when it's time for the choosing.”