"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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"What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time."
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"Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias."
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"In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness."
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"When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise."
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"I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition."
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"He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice."
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"A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia."
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"If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done."
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"Be heroes in an army of construction."
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"I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner."
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"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."
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