#construct

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#doing #flights #good #keep #maintenance

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#art #construction #europe #possible

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#becomes #body #conceives #consciousness #constructs

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#after #awake #constructing #deathly #designers

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. ↗

— Julian Clary

#end #get #gets #good #i

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#currently #haiti #haitian #haitian people #help

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#better #coordination #development #effective #efforts

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructed #conventions #discursive #empirical #fidelity

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructive #endure #foundation #god #harmonize

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct