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Letter "C" » construction
«Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
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completed, conceived, construction, device, devices, drawings, electric, electric light, electric motor, engine, immaterial, improvements, inventions, machine shop, measurement, measurements, my first, on paper, operate, shop, sketch, sketched, sketches, Thirty Years, turbine, vacuum, wireless, workmen
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
| About:
Language
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abstract, abstracted, abstracting, affections, arising, bases, broad, broadest, broads, close to, construction, constructions, dictionary, generations, ground, joys, low, Makers, tastes, The Makers, ties
«I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.»
Author: Wilbur Wright
(Inventor)
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avail, construction, crank, cranked, Cranks, enthusiast, enthusiasts, Flying machine, mite, mites, PET, theories, worker
«Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is to say, a thinking person - can possibly have»
Author: Arnold Bennett
| About:
Golf
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anthology, construction, hobbies, pleasantest, that is to say
«For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, appearances, construction, constructions, escaped, Everything or Nothing, foundations, tearing, Things Fall Apart, veil, vividly
«It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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Another World, collapses, completing, constructing, construction, constructions, Dissolves, dissolving, frantically, habitation
«HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abandoned, atmospheric, captains, construction, cyclone, decked, decks, demonstration, demonstrations, fashioned, hurricane, hurricanes, Indies, old fashioned, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, preferred, sea captain, steamboat, steamboats, The Hurricane, the Indies, the West, tornado, tornadoes, upper, uppers, upper deck, usefulness, West Indies
«Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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construction, constructions, cosmos, emotional, narrow, Personal experience, pivot, pivots, security, whirlpool
«For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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channels, construction, creeds, fixity, openness, rigidly, rituals, spiritual life, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, The Current, thwart, thwarting
«Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Common sense
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authorities, common law, construction
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