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• Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.

  Karl E. Weick

  People, Variables, Orderliness

  "Social Psychology of Organizing". Book by Karl E. Weick, p. 243, 1979.

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• Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

  Francis Crick

  Ideas, Collaboration, Candid

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• You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

  Steve Backley

  Self, Negativity, Belief

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• La publicación en 1859 del Origen de las Especies por Charles Darwin marcó una época en mi propio desarrollo mental, al igual que en el del pensamiento humano en general. Su efecto fue demoler de un solo golpe una multitud de barreras dogmáticas y despertar un espíritu de rebelión contra todas las autoridades antiguas cuyas afirmaciones positivas y no autentificadas eran contradichas por la ciencia moderna.

  Francis Galton

  Science, Development, Spirit

  Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.211, Routledge

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• Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Religious, Philosophical, Hands

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). "Pieces of Eight Pa", Mariner Books

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• In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

  Yaser Arafat

  Two, Lebanon, Three

  Fuente: www.nybooks.com

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• My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.

  Subramanian Swamy

  Political, Cost, Weapons

  "India’s Nuclear Option". Interview in New Delhi, India, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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• Estudiamos la salud, y deliberamos sobre nuestras comidas y bebidas y aire y ejercicios, y labramos y pulimos cada piedra que va a ese edificio; y así nuestra salud es un trabajo largo y regular. Pero en un minuto un cañón lo azota todo, lo derriba todo, lo demuele todo; una enfermedad no prevenida por toda nuestra diligencia, insospechada por toda nuestra curiosidad, más aún, inmerecida, si sólo consideramos el desorden, nos convoca, se apodera de nosotros, nos posee, nos destruye en un instante.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Air, Long

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Practice, Play, Challenges

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• Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Light, Tyrants

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• Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it, 'As the beloved of God, we have no alternative but to love him in return.

  Mark Galli

  Fashion, Grateful, Heart

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• Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

  Francis Quarles

  Two, Understanding, Soul

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• There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Believe, Men

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• Muhammad era un imbécil. La gente que cree en él es estúpida. Llamemos a las cosas por su nombre. Hay que reírse de esta gente. Hay que ridiculizarlos a ellos y a su profeta chiflado, no respetarlos. Que se estremezcan, que hagan muecas, que agonicen. Debemos demoler este fetiche y romper los grilletes de estos desgraciados. Hay que liberarlos y la única manera de hacerlo es derribando su fetiche.

  Ali Sina

  Estúpido, Creer, Gente

  Fuente: myislam.dk

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• Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

  René Descartes

  Numbers, Years, Childhood

  Meditationes "Meditation I" (1641)

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• The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

  León Krier

  Artist, Order, Ideas

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• Cada do agudo golpeado con precisión echa por tierra la teoría de que somos marionetas irresponsables del destino o del azar.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Puppets, Chance

  "Notes on Music and Opera". Essay by W. H. Auden, published in his book "The Dyer's Hand" (p. 471), 1963.

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• Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Stories, Glimpse

  "The politics of fiction". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

  William Whewell

  Theory, Constructs

  William Whewell (1858). “Novum organon renovatum”, p.25

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• The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists.

  Diane Coyle

  Powerful, Simple, Clothes

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• There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that these atheists nurse against religion and against God? Let's face it, there is only one force that hates God's creation more than anything else - and that is Satan. Satan knows that God exists but wants no part of Him. It is Satan's ultimate goal to demolish all Christian elements in society and to damage the human image that was made in God's image. Could Satan be the real instigator of this aggressive form of atheism?

  Gerard Verschuuren

  Christian, Atheist, Real

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• What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.

  India.Arie

  Polaco

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• An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

  Henri Langlois

  Art, People, Scratches

  "Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• No cabe duda de que a la gente le impresiona el aura de poder creativo que puede lucir un escritor, pero puede derribarla fácilmente con unas cuantas preguntas bien elegidas. Bob Shaw ha observado que las preguntas más mortíferas suelen venir en pareja: "¿Ha publicado algo?" - traducido libremente como: Nunca he oído hablar de usted - y "¿Bajo qué nombre escribe?" - que puede traducirse como: Definitivamente, nunca he oído hablar de usted.

  Brian Stableford

  Writing, Names, People

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• An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The problem with cinema today is the dearth of troublemakers. There’s not a rabble-rouser in sight. There was still one, but he went beyond troublemaker to court jester. He clobbered the status quo. That’s Godard. We’re fresh out of ‘bad students.’ You’ll find students masquerading as bad ones, but you won’t find the real article, because a genuine bad student upends everything.

  Henri Langlois

  Art, Real, Sight

  "Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque". Documentary, Biography, History, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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