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• Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Dark, Light

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• Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Power, Destiny, Mind

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.8, BookBaby

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• I'm not interested in scoring points or being over-critical of the US administration. I want to find the entry points to try and get it back on track so that the United States can get out of the present disastrous situation it's in, and back into being a constructive force for human rights in the world.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Track, Trying

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.

  Ernest Holmes

  Blessing, Men, Divinity

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.427, Penguin

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• The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Men

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• The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward and when to listen to constructive criticism.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Successful, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• Donald Trump is a good businessman. He knows how to put the deal together. And I think he'd be a - he'll be a very constructive figure in the White House.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, White, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Progress, Rebel

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• People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It's not very helpful. What's more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I was maybe the earliest person who was constructive toward Trump who served at a high level in the Bush administration. I took a lot of guff from my former Bush colleagues who didn't see what was happening in the country. I'm not smarter than they are or a better person than they are. I just traveled a lot around the country.

  Matt Schlapp

  Country, Levels, Administration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

  John Rawls

  Perfectionism

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.

  Herbert Read

  Real, Writing, Mean

  "English Prose Style". Book by Herbert Read, 1928.

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• I feel like I have more in common with conservative people who have activist causes in their hearts and who are interested in electoral politics than I do with somebody who doesn't care, doesn't have any political interests, doesn't know what policy is, and doesn't think any of it matters to them. If you care, we're actually going to have a basis of conversation. We might supplementally get along very well, and that might be complicated and fun in a way that is more constructive than you'd expect.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• On the cautionary side, Universal Jurisdiction could be used to achieve some kind of ideologically motivated criminalisation of 'the other' that would discredit and derail a constructive effort to develop a credible meta-law that governs the behaviour of leaders of sovereign states.

  Richard A. Falk

  Law, Leader, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

  Jane Jacobs

  Clever, Intelligent, Awful

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we aren't doing anything anymore and we are living off of what the poor Chinese do." It is more complicated than that. There is the example of Detroit which was once a very prosperous and diverse city. And look what happened when it just specialized on automobiles. Look at Manchester when it specialized in those dark satanic mills, when it specialized in textiles. It was supposed to be the city of the future.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dark, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• I always wanna be able to fight, I always wanna be able to go left when they tell me to go right, not because I'm being hard-headed, it's just me taking a creative stance. I have no problem with constructive criticism, but, at the same time, I have a problem with doin' the same thing that everybody's doin'. And that's the way I've found a way to survive in the music game.

  Pitbull

  Fighting, Games, Creative

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Trends, Youth

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Self, Envy, Examination

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• It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Meditation, Emotion

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Important, Addresses

  Source: time.com

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• I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hard Work, Games, Trying

  Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. May 11, 2005.

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• Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.

  Jerome Frank

  Civilization, Doubt, Lines

  Jerome Frank (1930). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

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