#construction

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#european #european countries #general #had #heavily

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#communication #deconstruction #direct #extra #i

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#also #assumed #canada #established #military

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#cartooning #deconstruction #down #gotta #joke

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#become #choose #construction #flatterers #guides

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

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#building #construction #does #failure #finished

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

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#currently #haiti #haitian #haitian people #help

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. ↗

— James Larkin

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#busy #california #construction #down #employers