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• The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

  Jim Harrison

  Jobs, Husband, Fighting

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• Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

  William Rothenstein

  Eye, Levels, Able

  Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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• What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

  Clifford Geertz

  Data, People

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.9, Basic Books

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• The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.

  Ollie Johnston

  Simple, Circles, Shapes

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• Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Lying, Airplane, Simple

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• American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this time that the Rothschilds were consolidating their new industrial holdings in the United States through their agent, August Belmont. Derek Wilson tells us: "They owned or had major shareholdings in Central American ironworks, North American canal construction companies, and a multiplicity of other concerns. They became the major importers of bullion from the newly discovered goldfields".

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, August, United States

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• 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. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Expression, Perfection

  Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart (1996). “What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Work, Math, Uniforms

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• I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

  Tom Jones

  Morning, Real, Successful

  "Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Ipads, Design

  "In Which Tim Gunn Tells Men to Watch Project Runway" by Kurt Soller, www.esquire.com. July 26, 2011.

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• More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, What Matters, Diversity

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• Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.

  Joss Whedon

  Strong, Jobs, Stupid

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Life Serial)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fall, Night, Light

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Mind, Wish

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8126, Delphi Classics

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• In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

  Albert Camus

  Unity, Demand, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.255, Vintage

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• If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.

  William Bateson

  Sight, Beginners, Growing

  William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson (1928). “William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life”, p.324, CUP Archive

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• Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Men, Style

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• To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more.

  Mitch Albom

  Taken, Self Worth, Mirrors

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• He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.

  Jude Deveraux

  Sexy, Stars, Children

  Jude Deveraux (2012). “Sweet Liar”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

  Breaux Greer

  Sports, Jobs, School

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• Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?

  Stevie Wonder

  Philosophy, Connected, Living Things

  Song: Race Babbling

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• Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

  Michelle Malkin

  New York, Construction Projects, Order

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• I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

  Benjamin Walker

  Cutting, Hands, Problem

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• Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

  Stacy London

  Believe, Pieces, Buying

  "Q&A: Stacy London tells 'The Truth About Style'". Interview with JIllian Singh, blog.sfgate.com. October 9, 2012.

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• If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

  Anthony Mackie

  Work Out, Acting, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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