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Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years. -- Craig Mello
The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. -- Oscar Niemeyer
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. -- George Matthew Adams
Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring. -- Lilly Pulitzer
I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability. -- Vijay Mallya
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst. -- Joseph Stiglitz
I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. -- Winona Ryder
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible. -- Martin Jacques
Each one of the films get built up and strengthened and reinforced, and we're not afraid to rip stuff out and redo it until we feel it's worthy of the 'Pixar' name. -- Pete Docter
I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect. -- Walter Payton
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. -- James Tobin
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person. -- Naveen Jain
September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York. -- Stephen Adly Guirgis
A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation. -- Michael Ovitz
All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service. -- Oliver North
The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path. -- Wadah Khanfar
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do. -- Mary Archer
I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams. -- Dita Von Teese
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. -- B. F. Skinner
My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other. -- Roz Chast
There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete. -- Sheri L. Dew
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with. -- Michael Eric Dyson
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. -- Alastair Campbell
As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches. -- John C. Maxwell
Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs. -- Christy Turlington
Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke. -- Terry Pratchett
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. -- Winston Churchill
The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice. -- Al Swearengen
The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment. -- Peter Joseph
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. -- Tim Ferriss
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. -- Michel de Montaigne
It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people. -- John Waters
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination. -- Terence McKenna
The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done. -- Richard Paul Evans
No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards. -- Jack Welch
The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship. -- Austin Farrer
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence. -- Cornel West
The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership. -- Rocky Bleier
She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door -- Patricia Briggs
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. -- Susan Sontag
I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching. -- Carolyn Murphy
I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain. -- Viola Davis
Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest. -- Eddie Vedder
Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers. -- Ben Schott
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality. -- Bertrand Russell
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution. -- Albert Camus
What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced. -- Francois Hollande
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught. -- Dick Gephardt
While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives. -- Earl Woods
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice. -- Jennifer Stone
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen. -- Jerry Saltz
Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself. -- Yanni
You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities. -- Marco Rubio
Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together. -- Willa Cather
A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations. -- Carl Jung
You make the choice for change more easily and readily each time as your conscious mind begins to reprogram your subconscious mind with a new habit, and the decision is reinforced by that positive change. -- Marshall Sylver

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