Assata Shakur
Activist
"We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves."
Construction quotes
Construction
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Sun Yat-sen
Revolutionary, Politician
"In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find."
Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us."
Ruth Graham
Author, Speaker
"End of Construction - Thank you for your patience."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
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"To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced."
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"The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction."
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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
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"As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build."
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"Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli"
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"I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals."
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"Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts."
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"Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed."
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"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."
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"If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be."
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"Constructiveness is the human way."
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"You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw."
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"Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market."
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"Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis."
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"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
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"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants"
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"The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction."
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"Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?"
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"The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities."
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"Every human being is under construction from conception to death."
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