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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. -- Plato
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. -- Jose Saramago
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. -- David Allan Coe
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly. -- Al Roker
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. -- Russell Brand
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. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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. -- Herbert Hoover
The road to success is always under construction. -- Lily Tomlin
End of Construction - Thank you for your patience. -- Ruth Graham
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. -- Helen Keller
I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals. -- Gerrit Smith
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created. -- Dennis Hastert
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. -- Jacques Chirac
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. -- Gianni Agnelli
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence. -- Cesar Pelli
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. -- Douglas Coupland
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. -- Walter Benjamin
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. -- John Maynard Keynes
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. -- Ludwig von Mises
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw. -- Billy Graham
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. -- Fritz Todt
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house. -- Francis Parkman
In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War. -- Dennis Cardoza
For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000. -- Jill Soloway
If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous. -- Christina Romer
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner. -- Simon Newcomb
The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes. -- Le Corbusier
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. -- Roger Staubach
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground -- Noah Webster
Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation. -- Vladimir Putin
The road to success is always under construction. -- Lily Tomlin
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. -- 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. -- Kim Cattrall
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
To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful. -- Steve Harvey
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
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. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Edmund Burke
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. -- Thomas Marshburn
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience. -- Al Sharpton
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. -- James Patterson
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. -- Jackson Pollock
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject. -- Sam Raimi
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' 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. -- Warren Farrell
Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see. -- Sharon Salzberg
Expectations are resentments under construction. -- Anne Lamott
Demolition is a part of construction. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Be heroes in an army of construction. -- Helen Keller
The Church is a perpetual construction site. -- Henri de Lubac
My construction will cover the entire Universe. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Criticism is not construction, it is observation. -- George William Curtis
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli -- B. F. Skinner
Success is a project that's always under construction. -- Pat Summitt
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction. -- Auguste Comte
I like anybody who does any kind of construction. -- John Craig
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -- Leo Aikman
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. -- Niklaus Wirth
I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline. -- Rand Paul
Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power. -- Camille Paglia
Every human being is under construction from conception to death. -- Billy Graham
I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25. -- Bob Corker
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. -- Wyndham Lewis
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. -- David Mitchell
When we vote we participate in the construction of a context... -- Aberjhani
A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction. -- Toba Beta
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. -- William Shakespeare
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way. -- Matt Taibbi
Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers. -- Brad Pitt
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. -- Adrienne Monnier
You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words. -- Nigel Rees
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. -- Keith Ellison
If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction. -- Anthony Mackie
The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned. -- Jill Shalvis
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. -- Glenn Gould
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. -- Kelly Miller
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980 -- Nikita Khrushchev
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. -- Roland Barthes
Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death. -- Mason Cooley
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. -- Umberto Eco
We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction. -- Anson Mount
Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction. -- Stacy London
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law. -- Julian Assange
I've worked at a deli, I've worked construction, I've worked a few different jobs. -- Josh Homme
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory. -- Robert Hughes
Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life. -- Raoul Vaneigem
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction. -- George Ade
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly." -- Gianni Agnelli
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. -- Marc Bloch
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! -- Evelyn Underhill
Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance. -- Masha Tupitsyn
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. -- Le Corbusier
No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand. -- Emily Saliers
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic. -- Donatella Versace
The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away -- John Warren Kindt
A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone. -- Yi-Fu Tuan
I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun. -- Nina Dobrev
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. -- William Henry Maule
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle. -- Eartha Kitt
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. -- Jimenez Lai
Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. -- Jane D. Hull
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. -- Thomas Jefferson
The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets. -- William J. Bernstein
Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception. -- Stephen Mallinder
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. -- Jean Piaget
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high. -- Gus Van Sant
I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants -- Jeff Miller
With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad. -- Tim Gunn
A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality. -- Salman Rushdie
Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected? -- Stevie Wonder
I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants. -- Jeff Miller
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! -- Helen Keller
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. -- Jo Nesbo

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