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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. -- Warren Buffett
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. -- Clifford Geertz
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. -- Judith Butler
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. -- Charlotte Bronte
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. -- Albert Ellis
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. -- Barbara Kruger
I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible. -- Julie Christie
Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years. -- Eugenie Clark
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span. -- Michael Kors
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. -- Dan Flavin
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. -- Phil Crosby
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. -- William C. Bryant
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. -- Sugata Mitra
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. -- George Stephenson
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape. -- Christian Dior
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. -- Richard Rogers
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. -- Charles Dickens
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal. -- L. Ron Hubbard
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well. -- David Hockney
Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head. -- Robert LaSardo
A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities. -- Edward Sapir
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough. -- Andrew Taylor Still
We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem. -- Stacy London
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist? -- Noam Chomsky
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change. -- Jeremy Renner
Knowledge is constructed, not transferred -- Peter Senge
Good stories are constructed, not found, -- Warren Spector
Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday. -- Sigmund Freud
Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes. -- Susan Blackmore
Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom. -- A.D. Sams
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self. -- Jay-Z
Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed. -- Gerald Fischbach
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. -- Irvin D. Yalom
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life. -- Helen Hayes
The normal guardrails of healthy emotional boundaries were never constructed inside me. -- Merri Lisa Johnson
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self. -- Vironika Tugaleva
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules. -- Jane Haddam
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being. -- Abraham Maslow
By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. -- John le Carre
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals -- Irving Kristol
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care. -- A. P. Herbert
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. -- David Eagleman
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation -- Charlotte Bronte
If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently. -- Emily Post
A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn. -- Eli Pariser
G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole. -- Richard Armour
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. -- Cassandra Clare
Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard. -- Archibald MacLeish
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. -- Haruki Murakami
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. -- Fernand Point
Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one. -- Stellan Skarsgard
I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules. -- Jim Gaffigan
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. -- Margaret Atwood
I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them. -- Thomas Mallon
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. -- Robert Shea
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. -- Brian Eno
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing. -- Carol Gilligan
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point. -- Abdoulaye Wade
Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics. -- George Akerlof
Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. -- Edward Charles Titchmarsh
The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self. -- Deepak Chopra
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them. -- Thomas Mallon
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. -- Swami Brahmananda
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. -- Freeman Dyson
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth. -- Harry S. Truman
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. -- Bertrand Russell
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. -- Joseph Barbera
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife -- Kurt GÃ¶del
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle. -- W. H. Auden
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. -- Pope John Paul II
Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some, probably most, are constructed here on earth for any number of reason. -- Farahad Zama
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. -- Leopold Schefer
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. -- Sidney Altman
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. -- Bono
Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena. -- Lee Smolin
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. -- George Bernard Shaw
Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. -- Arundhati Roy
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration. -- Clay Shirky
The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption. -- Kelseyleigh Reber
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action. -- Jerome Ravetz
Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like. -- Marc Cooper
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law. -- Emile Durkheim
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest -- Thabo Mbeki
I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker. -- Simon Kinberg
Love is a bridge between your future and mine. A bridge constructed entirely out of trust, honesty, and in our case, wooden planks. -- Jarod Kintz
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot. -- Arthur Keith
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on. -- Arthur Smith
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations. -- Ada Lovelace
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on." -- Arthur Smith
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again. -- Lisa Unger
It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality. -- Victor Hugo
Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man? -- Michael Denton
A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. -- William C. Bryant
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. -- Mark Twain
If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. " Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing. -- Scott Anderson
Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation. -- Margaret M. Lock
You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing... -- Barbara Degenevieve
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. -- Alberto Giacometti
To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke. -- Paul Klee
For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles. -- Bertrand Russell
From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough. -- Kristin Cashore
When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool. -- Josh Billings
To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers , and generate options. -- Gary Hamel
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print. -- Iain Banks

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