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• The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and ritual activities, or honors the completed stupa with an altruistic resolve to benefit all beings, then the blessings are such that the Buddha himself could not describe them.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Motivation, Blessing, Honor

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• We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to the finish before going ahead with our construction. If you are afraid of war day in day out, what will you do if war eventually comes? First, I said that the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind and war will not break out, and now I have added these explanations about the situation in case war should break out. Both possibilities have thus been taken into account.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Taken

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• Companies that actually survive and flourish are going to change their business model from production to aggregating the networks and the network services and solutions. If you're a construction company or an IT company or a logistics company or an information data operation, to the extent that you can find ways to help build the commons, you can get some commercial value in that.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Data, Logistics, Information

  "Is Capitalism Dead?". Interview with Aaron Lazenby, www.oracle.com. June 2014.

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• I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

  Gaetano Pesce

  Real, Needs, Logic

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• A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

  Mark Zandi

  Believe, Home, Years

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• It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Keys, Law

  "On the Method of Theoretical Physics". Lecture at the University of Oxford (1933), as quoted in Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 63., p. 237, 1990.

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• After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

  Jacques Barzun

  Men, Space, Europe

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• We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

  Assata Shakur

  Needs, Weapons, Enough

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• Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

  George Ade

  Men, Neighbor, Architect

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

  Ellen Barkin

  Mother, Character, Thinking

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• All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Bricks And Mortar, Order, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Long, Awkward

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• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  Nate Berkus

  Light, Fixture, Certain

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• Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Intelligent, Fishing

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• Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Philosophy, Garden

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• There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Thinking, Purpose

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• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Distance, Mean, Special

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• Demolition is a part of construction.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Demolition

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from Apollo 11.

  Neil Armstrong

  Good Night, Heart, People

  Excerpts from Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, edited by Edgar M. Cortright, NASA SP-350, Washington, DC, amview.japan.usembassy.gov. 1975.

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• Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Ideas, Plot

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• The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

  Thomas Eakins

  Powerful, Tools, Stumps

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• I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

  Catherine Opie

  Identity, Culture, Masculinity

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• The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.

  Stanton Peele

  Individual, Source, Form

  Stanton Peele (1985). “The Meaning of Addiction: Compulsive Experience and Its Interpretation”, Free Press

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• 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

  Jobs, Engineering, Creative

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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