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“Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.”

“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.”

Men Want War Jobs Political Politics Common Doctors Sick Satisfied Construction Engineers Uncommon Common Man

Author:Herbert Hoover

“The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.”

Wells May Two Law Natural Views Clear Doubt Weight Constitution Aids Practicals Interpretation Construction Unnecessary Entitled Employed Resorts Ambiguity Framers Collateral

Author:Melville Fuller

“Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.”

“... trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.”

Trying May Stills Hands Realizing Pay Cost Bills Boxes Hospitals Construction Nurse Tissues

Book:This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America

Source: This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America

“Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.”

Given Philosopher Data Collections Construction Theoretical

Book:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

“A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.”

Light Language Space Materials Construction

Author:Sven Birkerts

“The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security”

Numbers Security Projects Covered Construction Unfinished Construction Projects

Author:Tatyana Golikova

“As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty dollar was the way to be happy...and I woke up one morning and I had three retail establishments and a full-blown construction company with partners making great money and I was miserable.”

Way Hands Three Company Morning Luck Dollars Partners Miserable Construction Establishment Almighty Billionaire Retail Great Money Construction Company

Author:Drew Waters

“Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction world. That turned into a commercial development company and construction company.”

World Wells Home Company Growing Up Growing Land Development Built My Family Construction Knowledgeable Family Growing Up Construction Company

Author:Drew Waters

“The problem was with construction and retail, you have to be able to shut things off at night and spend quality time with yourself and family. I couldn't do it. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to give 100% to my passion if I held on to them.”

Ifs Giving Problem Able Night Passion Quality Construction My Passion Retail Quality Time

Author:Drew Waters

“Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?”

Remains Construction Palaces Emperor Pantheon

Author:Petrarch

“Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment”

“I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.”

Made Facts Romance Materials Skills Method Invention Contemporary Construction Engineering Pale Groundwork Skills And Knowledge

Book:Invasion of the Sea

Source: Invasion of the Sea

“Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.”

Looks May Events Calling Window Photograph Memoir Construction Composition Deliberate Casual Selective Summary

Author:William Zinsser

“Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction”

Hands Pockets Construction Ladders Road To Success Ladder Of Success Under Construction

Author:Lily Tomlin

“At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.”

“Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.”

School Nations Construction Innovative Arizona Financing

Author:Jane D. Hull

“These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?”

Thinking Should Evil Behinds Weapons Roots Hatred Greed Construction

Author:Pope Francis

“So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form of poesis, a form of production-construction, but there might be ways of conceiving of that in a much more interesting manner. That's what I'm thinking about at the moment.”

Thinking Way Trying Moments Might Form Interesting Connections Productions Awful Construction Conceiving

Author:Simon Critchley

“We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.”

Men Looks Dying Safety Fortune Glasses Construction Site Homeless Garbage Ceilings Collectors Hazards Cellars Glass Ceiling Construction Sites

Author:Warren Farrell

“At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.”

Roles Construction Basics

Author:Kim Cattrall

“There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.”

People Looks Persons Mirrors Monsters Justify Construction Savages

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.”

Men Loss Results Weather Construction Flood Ecosystems Erosion Deforestation Levees

Author:Paul Hawken

“It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.”

Firsts Self Helping Use Names Steps Groups Self Help Accidents Redemption Ritual Construction First Steps Wiping Out

Author:Walter Kirn

“A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.”

People Giving Sometimes Fall Wind Falling In Love Sentences Construction Enlightening Gabriel Joyce Good Reads Marquez Garcia Marquez

Author:James Patterson

“I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.”

People Bigs Artist Building Painting Construction More Money Sculpture

Book:Andy Warhol: the late work

Source: Andy Warhol: the late work

“Every human being is under construction from conception to death.”

Humans Human Beings Conception Construction Under Construction

Book:Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.”

Games Simple Conversation Empathy Connections Performances Competition Circles Climbing Construction Hierarchy Pyramids

Author:Richard Rohr

“We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.”

Running Fun Space Scientist Exciting Workers Being The Best Stations Construction Engineers Laboratory Assistants Bundles Plumber Electrician

Author:Thomas Marshburn

“The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.”

America Social Changed Projects Complexes Massive Construction Engineering Social Engineering

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.”

People Knows World Giving Country Quality Give Me Construction Good Quality

Author:Vladimir Putin

“All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.”

Play Used Natural Lines Skills Guitar Faculty Construction Solo Exploits Flutes Surrogates

Author:Ian Anderson

“Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.”

Thinking Giving Made Important Ends House Energy Materials Aspect Direct Connections Details Architecture Construction Frank Site Spatial

Author:Steven Holl

“I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.”

Want Fun My Own Yoga Property Studios Planning Construction

Author:Nina Dobrev

“Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.”

Jobs Materials Environmental Spending Operations Construction Engineering Manufacturing Maintenance

Author:Keith Ellison

“There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.”

Thinking Has Beens Rocks Degrees Built Boards Sexism Chemistry Construction Versus Flexible Being A Woman

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.”

People Thinking Doe Ideas Running Culture Courses Social Natural Response Deny Arise Construction Social Construction

Author:Denis Dutton

“I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.”

House Energy Water Design Building Bases Construction Electricity Audio Contractor

Author:Tony Fadell

“My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.”

Wells May Choices Next Views Effects Design Concerned Impression Construction

Book:Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

Source: Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

“There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.”

Men Process Animal Duty Research Instruments Plant University Boards Soil Strings Professors Construction Orchestra Describing Examining

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.”

“As you know, there were lots of huge marches around the country yesterday to protest the immigration laws. The marches had quite an impact on businesses. Restaurants had to close, construction sites had to shut down, the Yankees had to forfeit a game. ... Do you realize that Americans are now doing the jobs that immigrants won't do because they're out protesting?”

Knows Country Jobs Law Games Realizing Huge Impact Yesterday Immigration Restaurants Protest Immigrants March Construction Site Yankees Forfeit Immigration Laws Construction Sites

Author:Jay Leno

“We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.”

People Lasts Effort Steps Millions Conditions Commit Breasts Lasting Relative Construction Implants

Author:Nelson Mandela

“I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.”

People Knows Persons Stills I Can Guy Stuff Walks Rooms Common Company Groups Truth Is Meetings Bunch Drunk Dust Therapy Construction Ceo Abyss Walks Of Life Ugh Drunk People

Author:Lynda Carter

“But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.”

Thinking Men Eye Evidence Ears Contrary Preserves Abstract Reasoning Logical Construction Closing Neat

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.”

Law Construction Adapted Metallic

Book:¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Source: ¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture

“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.”

“There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction - all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.”

Men Believe Character Film Numbers Moral Opinion Weak Notion Partners Obligation Construction Behaviour Drowning Inadequate Incompetent Disclaimers

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which California officials fully expect to be funded.”

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