Quotes with construction

  • As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
  • The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

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  • Carlo Rubbia As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Edmund Burke But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Rancic Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Adrienne Clarkson Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Bridget Moynahan If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • David Mitchell It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Antony Hewish Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.
    Antony Hewish
    British radio astronomer (1924 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Walter Benjamin The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Charles Dickens The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Kruger What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernard Arnault When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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