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Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles. -- Erik Naggum
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. -- Jean Piaget
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. -- Charles Simic
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. -- Henri Poincare
We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest. -- Daniel Bruhl
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. -- Henri Bergson
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. -- Joshua Foer
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. -- Anatole France
Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness. -- Theodore Zeldin
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach. -- Ivan Pavlov
In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity. -- Ahmed Zewail
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
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. -- Steven Chu
The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis. -- Noam Chomsky
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? -- Stephen Hawking
The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready. -- Steve Martin
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. -- Paul Ricoeur
Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools. -- Boomer Esiason
I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone. -- Christian Louboutin
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer. -- Philippe Petit
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. -- Philippe Petit
You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back. -- Cory Michael Smith
Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. -- Grace Slick
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat. -- John Pistole
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work. -- Adam Ross
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies. -- Aristotle
Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it..." -- Grant Morrison
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality." -- Jean Piaget
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships." -- Charles Simic
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming." -- Alice Walker
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq." -- Peter DeFazio
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority." -- Henri Poincare
We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest." -- Daniel Bruhl
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction." -- Aleksandar Hemon
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process." -- Steve Carell
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments." -- Henri Bergson
Here I amLooking at the world's mirrorFinding myselfat the center of a mazeConstructing the roots of a dreamfor a nationless societyby the power of peace" -- Rixa White
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
Success will locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But remember you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads!" -- Israelmore Ayivor
The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself." -- G.K. Chesterton
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council." -- Charles Tupper
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he." -- Cormac McCarthy
When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words are slaves that I put to work constructing my pyramids of thought." -- Jarod Kintz
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species." -- J. Philippe Rushton
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach." -- Ivan Pavlov
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know." -- Jonathan Miller
You will arise, so start by attempting to rise. Don't give space for failure to erect local huts in your land; agree that you are constructing a global edifice there! Think possibility and be hopeful!" -- Israelmore Ayivor
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size." -- Steven Chu
A brick is a good object to hide a house key under. No burglar will be able to get to your key, especially if you hide it under the first brick the mason's lay when constructing your house." -- Jarod Kintz
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine or a farm, there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation." -- John Maynard Keynes
Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, ClaireDamon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room." The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]" -- Damon Galgut
I conclude there are two ways of constructing software design: one way is to make it so simple there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- Tony Hoare
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul." -- Kevin Brockmeier
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." -- Tennessee Williams
The first-century Jews who wrote about Jesus had already made up their minds about who he was. They were constructing a theological argument about the nature and function of Jesus as Christ, not composing a historical biography about a human being." -- Reza Aslan
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design." -- Michael Hansmeyer
We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path." -- Rafik Hariri
Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing...." -- J. K. Rowling
Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested in making up cultures that are different" -- Marie Brennan
If you had managed to persuade my mother not to procreate, I would not exist to send you the plans for constructing your own time machine in which to travel back in time to persuade my mother not to procreate. Apparently, this is known as a pair of ducks." -- David Thorne
Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'." -- Shuli Barzilai
I fully recognize there is an urgent need for constructing the _strategic we-nes-in-sameness_ and promoting the _solidarity of sameness_. The sheer realization of the inextricable interconnectedness of I-ness/me-ness and we-ness/us-ness is the round for an authentic solidarity with one another in spite of and regardless of the difference." -- Namsoon Kang
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube." -- Myla Goldberg
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked." -- John Kennedy Toole
If psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's way of constructing meaning in a postreligious world, what does it mean that I'm impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?" -- David Rakoff
Because Time has been around for a long time, it often gets bored. In order to briefly relieve its boredom, Time enjoys constructing massively unlikely series of events. If the events are of the romantic kind, they're called Fate, and if they are of the negative kind, we call them Unfortunate Coincidence." -- Ben Brooks
I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real." -- Janet Echelman
As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs." -- Henry David Thoreau
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself." -- Fredric Jameson
It's necessary that everyone does his duty and works in his place - devotes himself to constructing a body of fundamental values - against the common enemy - in a network of active, supple, inderdependent, and confederated resistance - present on every front, at the level of Europe - with the aim of concentrating all the energies of the combatants." -- Guillaume Faye
Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output. -- Michael Kirby
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing. -- Paul Klee
You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw. -- Doris McCarthy
An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding. -- Germano Facetti
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships. -- Charles Simic
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. -- Maya Angelou
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. -- Ernst Mach
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. -- Rudyard Kipling
The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script. -- David Mamet
Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books! -- Stephen Vincent Benet
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work. -- Ai Weiwei
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. -- Alice Walker
Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change. -- Kiki Smith
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq. -- Peter DeFazio
The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. -- Stephen Harper
Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing. -- Madeleine Albright
Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism, -- Antony Flew
There's tons of potential to do something absolutely loopy with a world that you create and characters that you are literally surgically constructing. -- Eric Holmes
We define what we deserve, others also define what we deserve, apparently there is a huge difference and we spend our life constructing the same. -- Pushpa Rana
I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it. -- Luke Kirby
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing. -- David Henrie
Success can locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell. -- James Gleick
The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Success will locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But remember you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads! -- Israelmore Ayivor
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe -- Paul Dirac
Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do. -- Allen W. Wood
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead"¦ -- Marguerite Yourcenar
The first lesson in constructing viral content is having the strength, courage, and self-confidence to get in touch with your own feelings, thinking about what profoundly affects you. -- Ken Poirot
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. -- Charles Tupper
We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy -- Daniel Gilbert
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. -- Cormac McCarthy
Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof. -- Mark Leyner
In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are. -- Richard Serra
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards. -- Rian Johnson
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing. -- Kerry James Marshall
A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents. -- Robert W. Floyd
Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments. -- Bernard Bailyn
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film. -- Sam Raimi
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

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