Reconstruction Quotes - Page 2

• As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Psychics, Physics, Process

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.203, Shambhala Publications

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• The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.

  Noam Chomsky

  Black, Males, United States

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.

  Eustace Mullins

  War, Russia, Rights

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• In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Years, Democracy

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• I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Pressure, Reputation

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• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Dissection, Method

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• There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Vacuums, Demolition

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.605, My Ebook Publishing House

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• We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.

  Otto Neurath

  Taken, Sea, Support

  Otto Neurath, Marie Neurath, Robert Sonné Cohen (1973). “Empiricism and sociology”

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• To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Endeavour, Process

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

  Margaret Atwood

  Way, Feels, I Can

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

  Karl Popper

  Plato, Political, Program

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• India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

  Joschka Fischer

  India, Engagement, Afghanistan

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• I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the spirit of religion; and that the method which frankly recognizes the facts of life, and appreciates the spirit of the scientists whose patient and assiduous endeavor has brought those facts to light, will commend the spirit of religion to the new generation, and will benefit--not impair--theology as a science, by compelling its reconstruction.

  Lyman Abbott

  Believe, Light, Appreciate

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

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• I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

  Kit Williams

  Years, People, Different

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• Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

  Tom Lantos

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Simple, Law, Doe

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• Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

  Alan Coren

  Historical, Magic, Vision

  "Tissues for Men". Book by Alan Coren, 1980.

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• You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

  Kay Boyle

  Memories, Ruins, Chaos

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• In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  Fritz Todt

  Beauty, Uncontrollable

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

  Hesiod

  Trust, Literature, Deceiver

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• We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

  Leonard Boswell

  Retirement, Safe, Able

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• Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Spiritual, Sex, Mean

  Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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• The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

  Neil Young

  Community, Needs, Culture

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• Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Father, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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