Reconstruction Quotes - Page 7

• I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Hard Work, Thinking, Musician

  FaceBook post by Gavin Rossdale from Mar 26, 2012

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• Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.

  Paul Rotha

  Regret, Past, Reality

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• Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

  John Dewey

  Regulation, Consciousness, Individual

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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• What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues.

  Thomas Friedman

  War, Team, Cutting

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• For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

  William Graham Sumner

  Human Nature, Trouble, Remedy

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• I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

  Henry Rollins

  Haiti, Plans

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• When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Government, Community, Firsts

  Text of Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Committee, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 2003.

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• Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.

  Tony Blair

  Successful, Loss, Simple

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us.

  George Saunders

  War, Reading, Writing

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

  Roger Daltrey

  Play, Guitar, Layers

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• Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

  Stephen Harper

  Allies, Events, Degrees

  "Maclean's Magazine", August, 25, 2003.

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• Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

  William Beveridge

  Ignorance, Desire, Disease

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• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. ... I think, frankly, that everybody knew the post-war situation was probably going to be more difficult than the war itself. Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Thinking, Mass Destruction

  "Maclean's" Magazine, August, 25, 2003.

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• If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Needs, Alternatives

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

  Sophocles

  Laughter, Children, Giving

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• We dont think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but well not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  Rafik Hariri

  Country, Thinking, Differences

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• The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.

  Seymour Papert

  Meaningful, Views, Ideas

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• One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Intellectual, One Day, Speech

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• But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

  Wayne White

  Resistance, Term, Magnitude

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• The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints.

  Gary North

  Christian, Biblical, Self

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• Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

  Charles Perrault

  Daughter, Mother, Character

  Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

  Timothy Foote

  Memories, Powerful, Real

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• I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mind, Trying, Relief

  1971 TheWill to Change,'Planetarium'.

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• I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God. I am bound to believe that in a tumultuous age like ours the most important and imperative duty is the reconstruction of humanity to Almighty God.

  Warren G. Harding

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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