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“Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.”

Feels Mind Humans May Hard Feelings Beautiful Strong Sides Accepting Wall Terrible Connections Construction Reciprocity One Sided Strong Connection

Author:Alan Lightman

“I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.”

Men Use Body Might Poor Sacrifice Direct Workers Soldier Construction Firefighter Miners Why Me Construction Workers

Author:Warren Farrell

“In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.”

World Country Philosophy Today America Form Universe Results Intellectual Profit Yield Construction Elsewhere Technological Strict Assured Procedures Logistics Anglo Saxon

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.”

Materials Chiefs Construction Utopia

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.”

Ifs Two Matter Whole Standing Workers Construction Factories Trapped Miners Working Life Factory Workers Construction Workers

Author:Bill Shorten

“The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.”

Action Change Design Patterns Architecture Hopefully Productive Construction

Book:Change Masters

Source: Change Masters

“To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.”

Writing Kind Building Wall Balance Music Is Logic Miracle Raises Proportion Internals Construction Ladders Innate Scaffolding Under Construction

Author:Arthur Honegger

“Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.”

Source: The Family: An Historical and Social Study

“Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.”

Process Growth Our Lives Evolve Construction Wrong Things Verge

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.”

Mind Humans Wells Children Human Beings Doubt Materials Adults Built Philosophical Constant Chaos Myth Tales Landscape Fairy Legends Construction Fairy Tale Shelter Components Siege

Author:Yi-Fu Tuan

“In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny.”

People Mean Ideas Force Destiny Masters Revolution Mass Capacity Responsible Motive Construction

Author:Kim Il-sung

“Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army.”

People Giving Country Party Military Revolution Army Affair Priorities Socialism Revolutionary Combat Construction Capability Socialist Top Priorities Mettle

Author:Kim Jong Il

“One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.”

People War Force Successful Balance Bases Fundamentals Contradiction Construction Socialist Readiness Epoch

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.”

Humans Two Body Found Principles Taken Figures Holy Projects Perfection Circles Proportion Consideration Temples Squares Construction Principal Human Body

Author:Luca Pacioli

“An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.”

Liberty Subjects Ought Construction Favour

Author:William Henry Maule

“The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems”

“After a six-year battle, the Senate will vote next week to begin construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, which is an oil pipeline that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. They're hoping the pipeline will provide enough oil to cover Kim Kardashian's next photo shoot.”

Years Enough Running Next Week Battle Six Vote Oil Canada Construction Senate Coast Next Week Kim Pipeline Photo Shoots Keystones

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.”

World Years Long Earth Order Air Sky Average Desert Novelists Dry Fifty Valleys Construction Long Ago Peers Venture Other Worlds Pilgrim Telescopes Astronomers Chile Pristine Rainfall

Author:Brad Leithauser

“At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.”

Helping Sports Process Company Risk Team Design Cost Projects Construction Inherent Clients Consulting

Author:Roger Staubach

“Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places, paths, motions, agency, and causation underlie the literal or figurative meanings of tens of thousands of words and constructions, not only in English but in every other language that has been studied.”

Has Beens Language Force Space Path Evolution Research Concepts Scientist Including Agency Construction Handful Literal Cognitive Causation

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.”

Ifs Happens Rooms Saws Letting Go Tables Things Happen Designer Construction Crew Graphic Graphic Designer

Author:Jack White

“I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.”

Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

“The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.”

Two Streets Hero Series Workers Features Construction Cop Rats Undercover Construction Workers

Author:Lori Foster

“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.”

Thinking Process Understanding Results Principles Produce Creatures Capable Accidents Expected Complexity Glorious Construction Unpredictable

Book:Full House

Source: Full House

“Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.”

Men Doe Conscience Construction Utterance

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.”

Mind Seems Eye Passion House Common Fine Affection Seats Construction Introducing Portal

Author:Joseph Addison

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.”

Children Feelings Beautiful Mother Simple Imagine Holy Pure Ties Links Construction Fidelity Withered Emblems Mother And Child Immaculate Simple And Beautiful

Author:Washington Irving

“Criticism is not construction, it is observation.”

Criticism Observation Construction

Book:The Potiphar Papers

Source: The Potiphar Papers

“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.”

Years Deals Example Objects Careful Burden Construction Isolated Ingenuity Undesirable

Book:Americans and Others

Source: Americans and Others

“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!”

Thinking Sometimes Body Mistake Construction Afterlife Resurrection

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.”

“I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.”

Jobs Streets Flower Odd Construction Odd Jobs

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.”

Happens Choices Chance Love Is Active Encounters Construction

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.”

People Thinking Way Feelings Process Acting Subjects Reflection Insight One Way Range Construction Connecting Positively Outlines Dots Prompts Acting Out Connecting The Dots

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.”

Home Law Four Cost Construction Laws Of Nature

Book:G

Source: G

“A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!”

Art Said Design Food Brilliant Eggs Works Of Art Construction Masterpiece Hens Packaging

Author:Delia Smith

“Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.”

Art Fashion Advertising Abstract Construction Site Furniture Abstract Art High Fashion Construction Sites

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.”

Book Language Claims Lays Clever Distinction Construction Volume Astonishing Printed Ingenious Multimedia

Author:Paul Di Filippo

“We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.”

Inspiration Form Universe Elements Mood Abstract Construction

Author:Giacomo Balla

“Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.”

Ifs Way Heart House Doubt Building Reader Towns No Doubt Village Construction Masterpiece Expanding Convenient Modernity Builder

Book:Lark Rise to Candleford

Source: Lark Rise to Candleford

“For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.”

Giving Building Capitalism Stations Construction Establishment Emergence Railway

Author:Paul A. Baran

“With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.”

Needs Fashion Design Aspect Construction Ipads

Author:Tim Gunn

“I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen. But I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes and especially people that put time into the construction of them.”

People Heart Ends Bigs Beautiful Fans Clothes Shopping Construction Jewelry Leather Chrome

Author:Dean Winters

“Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.”

Ifs Trying Looks Ends Jobs America Actors Teacher Workers Corporate Journalist Construction Corporate America Psych Construction Workers

Author:Dule Hill

“I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.”

Problem Together Young Responsibility Aging Conviction Working Together Sentiments Invites Construction Suspicious

Author:Tabare Vazquez

“It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.”

May Asks Effort Greater Stage Development Research Expensive Construction Reduction Prototype Pertinent Stages Of Development

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.”

Ifs World Heart Two Soul Body Would Be America Movement Tears Arms Machines Jazz Incredibles Legs Architecture Rhythm Eras Usa Touched Melody Construction Flood Part Time Torso

Author:Le Corbusier

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