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Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force. -- Carlo Carra
I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems. -- Mohammad Marandi
The text is a limited field of possible constructions. -- Paul Ricoeur
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. -- Katharine Anthony
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism. -- Tim Hetherington
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. -- Francis Bacon
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world. -- F. Sionil Jose
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. -- William James
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene. -- Jacques Barzun
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art. -- F. Sionil Jose
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?' -- Robert Wilson
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated. -- Seth Shostak
I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders. -- Stanley Bing
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions. -- Elias Hicks
Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best. -- Nick Park
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? -- Evangelista Torricelli
With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie. -- Luke Bracey
For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city. -- Edi Rama
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions -- Roland Barthes
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). -- Hilary Putnam
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions. -- W. H. Auden
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. -- Evangelista Torricelli
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. -- Thomas Jefferson
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths"¦ -- Roberto Bolano
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities. -- Bertrand Russell
I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner. -- Franz Kafka
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. -- Wendell Berry
World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. -- Edmundo Desnoes
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. -- William Zinsser
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? -- Petrarch
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When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise. -- Thomas Jefferson
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. -- Albert Einstein
We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration. -- Giacomo Balla
All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us. -- Judith Butler
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity. -- Fred Rodell
I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian]. -- Pope Gregory I
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history -- Manuel De Landa
The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience. -- Stanton Peele
Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very nature refer to the infinite. This is his glory. -- Hermann Weyl
I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me. -- Julian Schnabel
Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings. -- Neale Donald Walsch

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