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• 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

  Time, Nature, Space

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1998). “The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

  Frank Yerby

  Wall, Believe, Inspiration

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• Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

  Phil Cousineau

  Grandfather, Path, Steps

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.23, Conari Press

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• My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Different, Action

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.325

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• When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

  Gustav Stickley

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Gustav Stickley (1916). “The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living”

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• 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

  Ties, Long, Joy

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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

  Depression, Class, States

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.246

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• There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

  William Shakespeare

  Fake People, Art, Science

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• 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

  Beautiful, Believe, Recovery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Love, Money, Men

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Creativity, Creative Thought, Related To Creativity

  "Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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• As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Honey, Bees, Sweetest

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.

  Jonathan Lethem

  People, Sulky, Buying

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• 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

  Health, Exercise, Self

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Change, Attitude, Learning

  "The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 3". Book by Donald Knuth, www.wired.com. 1973.

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• Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

  James J. Hill

  Funny, Giving, Sweden

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• Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

  Cesar Pelli

  Optimism, Matter

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• the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Would Be, Communist

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• We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

  Anson Mount

  Taken, Destruction, Shows

  "Anson Mount Talks HELL ON WHEELS Season 3, Shooting by Himself in a Blizzard, and Return of the Swede". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

  Frank Gehry

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  "The Art Teacher's Book of Lists". Book by Helen D. Hume, December 31, 1997.

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• The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

  Robert Loggia

  Italian, Mafia, Way

  Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  War, Hero, Mean

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value, or the old entertainment construction, which is we've gone down to this instant gratification, instant numbers, instant understanding, instant. But it's like the exact - it has perfected itself to the instant click, when, in a way, creativity originates as a much more complex beast. So we now have to reinvent a new canvas where we can indulge in it. And that's where the digital revolution creates a whole new ecosystem of entertainment.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Creativity, Ecosystems, Digital Revolution

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Jobs, Years, Docks

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• Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Real, Mind

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