Quotes About Construction

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On peut seulement noter que l'hétérosexualité n'est pas "naturelle", pas plus qu'elle n'est la seule sexualité, la sexualité universelle. L'hétérosexualité est une construction culturelle qui justifie le système entier de la domination sociale fondé sur la fonction de la reproduction obligatoire pour les femmes et sur l'appropriation de cette reproduction.

I swiftly discovered that there are few things in DIY (and possibly life) that can't be solved with a large mallet, a bag of ten-centimetre nails and some swearing.

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.

Any system that aims to destroy, rather than to construct the world can't be considered to be good before any person who has a sound mind.

Love is the foundation of the house that I am building.

Genesis 1 and 2 are about the construction of a temple, namely, the heaven-and-earth creation in which God wants to dwell, with humans as the 'image' in the temple.

But on this night, Bowen Adrian Knight and Kaleb Krychek had, together, laid the first brick.

The stairs were steel-reinforced slabs of concrete, worn down by years of foot traffic, each step canted a slightly different angle from its neighbours. I like that. I liked things that had been solidly made and that wore the evidence of hard use, of survival.

This was the Bad Science strategy in a nutshell: plant complaints in op-ed pieces, in letters to the editor, and in articles in mainstream journals to whom you'd supplied the "facts," and then quote them as if they really were facts. Quote, in fact, yourself. A perfect rhetorical circle. A mass media echo chamber of your own construction.

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

Getting through Lake Tahoe was already like L.A., with construction all over the place

The keystone of any artistic construction is contained in that simple question, what is the intention?

embedded in every tool is an ideological bias, a predisposition to construct the world as one thing rather than another, to value one thing over another, to amplify one sense or skill or attitude more loudly than another.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

The meeting gave the green light for construction of eighty-one Martello towers

The towers were to be built along the seafront at 600-yard intervals,

Thirty million bricks were needed for the project, of which two and a half million had already been ordered.

A square tower with four big guns would be very costly,

but an elliptical tower with one gun and two carronades could be built for a fifth of the price,

Whatever the committee decided, it would take time for the towers to be built.

He could have built a bridge, or a series of floating forts.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Sólo a través de la lucha armada se pueden crear las condiciones subjetivas de la revolución. Sólo a través de la guerra de guerrillas se pueden crear las condiciones para la construcción de un Ejército del Pueblo"[33]