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• Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army.

  Kim Jong Il

  Country, Military, Party

  "The Songun-based Revolutionary Line Is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-victorious Banner of Our Revolution". Address to the senior officials of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party, January 29, 2003.

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• One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  War, Successful, People

  "Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic". Book by Edmund J. Keller, 1991.

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• The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.

  Luca Pacioli

  Taken, Squares, Circles

  "De divina proportione". Book by Luca Pacioli, June 1, 1509.

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• An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

  William Henry Maule

  Liberty, Favour, Subjects

  Johnson v. Harris, 3 W.R. 104, 1854.

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• The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems

  Sergei Korolev

  Communication, Space, Movement

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• After a six-year battle, the Senate will vote next week to begin construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, which is an oil pipeline that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. They're hoping the pipeline will provide enough oil to cover Kim Kardashian's next photo shoot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Next Week, Years

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• The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

  Le Corbusier

  Tree, Citizens, Stones

  "The Edict of Chandigarh" by Le Corbusier, 1959.

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• Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

  Mark Doty

  Rain, Play, Fog

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• When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth, it is therefore impossible for him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construction.

  Max Heindel

  Passion, Brain, Sound

  Max Heindel (2016). “Occult principles of health and healing”, p.71, Max Heindel

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• A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

  Greg Lynn

  Looks, Woods, Plastic

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• America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

  Robert Hughes

  America, Race, Class

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• The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

  John Moody

  Relationship, Country, Expansion

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

  Morarji Desai

  Animal, Men, Doe

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

  David Mitchell

  Sentences, Adept

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• Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.102, BookRix

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• History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Example, Doe

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Passion, Men, Order

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

  Grant Morrison

  Writing, Needs, Sculpture

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Way, Like You

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• The disgraceful and shameful construction of walls, the increasing enforcement of security systems and increasing violation of human rights and labor rights will not protect the economy of the United States.

  Vicente Fox

  Wall, Security Systems, Violation Of Human Rights

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

  John Moody

  Ohio, Rivers, Water

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

  John Moody

  California, Discovery, Gold

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• So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"

  Len Wiseman

  Stars, War, Drawing

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Art, Ideas, Creating

  José Clemente Orozco (1983). “Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice”

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• Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man" by William Hermanns, (p. 138), 1983.

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