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• He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

  Rupert Hughes

  Done, Helping, Plant

  Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”

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• The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

  Jiang Zemin

  Thinking, Government, Chinese

  "China keeps watch on U.S. policy shifts" by Willy Wo-Lap Lam, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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• A man should keep on being constructive, and do constructive things. He should take part in the things that go on in this wonderful world. He should be someone to be reckoned with. He should live life and make every day count, to the very end. Sometimes it’s tough. But that’s what I’m going to do.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Live Life, Men, Goes On

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• Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success, see Topics: Character, Charity, Goals, Humility, Peace of Mind, Sacrifice, Success-Change-Personal Growth, Success-Change-Constructive Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Love, Hate, Character

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• Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

  Miriam Makeba

  Thinking, People, Together

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• The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

  William James

  War, May, Individual

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Routledge

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• If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Attitude, Thinking, Negative

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• I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography. As a matter of fact, I inspire myself. (When I take a good picture I give myself a bonus.).

  Weegee

  Photography, Giving, Inspire

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• Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person who cannot feel anger at evil is a person who lacks enthusiasm for good. If you cannot hate wrong, it's very questionable whether you really love righteousness.

  David Seamands

  Spiritual, Hate, Evil

  David Seamands (1993). “Putting Away Childish Things”, Chariot Victor Publishing

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• We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak of the morals of an atom, or of the way in which a molecule conducts itself. But in the last analysis, science can draw no fundamental distinction between the conduct of an animal, a bullet, or a freshman, although there may be more unknown factors involved in one case than in the other.

  William Patten

  Animal, Sound, Molecules

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• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

  Brené Brown

  Feelings, Weakness, Connections

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  Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

  John Dewey

  Affair, Process, Active

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta

  George Will

  Creativity, Sea, Pipeline

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• When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Intelligent, Frustrated

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• We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

  Charles Kettering

  Enemy, Machines, Daily Life

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• Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important is not to focus all your efforts on the oppression, but to continue the constructive work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Focus, Effort, Important

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• Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

  Jerome Frank

  Wisdom, Civilization, Doubt

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

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• As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Emotion, Buddha Nature

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• There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

  Lee Iacocca

  Adversity, Fate, Born

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind a goal. It is constructive, it is helpful, it is healthy, to think about what future society might be like, because then it guides you somewhat what you are doing today, but only so long as this discussions about future society don't become obstacles to working towards this future society. Otherwise you can spend discussing this utopian possibility versus that utopian possibility, and in the mean time you are not acting in a way that would bring you closer to that.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Hard Work, Play, People

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• Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Voting, Liberty, Males

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• In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Finals, Analysis

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “The Trumpet of Conscience”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Talking, Carbon Emissions

  Source: bigthink.com

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