Reconstruction Quotes - Page 5

• Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.

  Ulric Neisser

  Memories, Rehearsal, Products

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• I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition.

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Thinking, Names, Mind

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• I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Thinking, Would Be

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Two, Empowering, Community

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In general, in all my films, I choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what I'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. I want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. In the same way as I used the narrator, I also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. I see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know.

  Michael Haneke

  Distance, Black And White, Reality

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and skill to the reconstruction of animals from disarticulated skeletons. Charles R. Knight, most celebrated of artists in the reanimation of fossils, painted all the canonical figures of dinosaurs that fire our fear and imagination to this day.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Artist, Animal

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

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• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Fighting, Long, People

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• I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

  Fred Frith

  Thinking, Influence, Composer

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• Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Stones, Form

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• I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Children, Book, Writing

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• We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

  Emperor Norton

  Wish, President, United States

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• Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

  John Irving

  Years, Stories, Months

  "Wrestling Life Into Fable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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• Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

  Walter Ulbricht

  People, German History, Needs

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• I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

  Eva Herzigova

  Surgery

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• It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.

  Gerald Horne

  Writing, Rights, Different

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

  Hesiod

  Children, Grief, Heart

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• With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

  Dwight Schultz

  Science, Thinking, Fiction

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• Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

  Sophocles

  Country, Thinking, Important

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• She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Hard Work, Age, Midwest

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• I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

  Shirley Jackson

  Jobs, Home, Giving

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• At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Minimum Wage, Lines

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• For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

  Agnes Smedley

  Events, Firsts, Week

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• You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Workers

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• The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.

  Vicente Fox

  Important, Worst, Important Things

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• Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ruins, Antiquity

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