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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. -- Susan Sontag
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. -- Agnes Repplier
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. -- Salman Rushdie
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
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. -- Ray Kurzweil
Depression is the inability to construct a future. -- Rollo May
If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct. -- Leo Fender
I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things. -- Julie Christie
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. -- Simone Weil
Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts -- Nancy Pearcey
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. -- Edgar Allan Poe
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. -- Spencer Bachus
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. -- Norman Douglas
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster. -- Bill Toomey
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. -- Raquel Cepeda
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. -- John Polkinghorne
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs -- Alfred P. Sloan
Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place. -- Warren Farrell
What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan. -- Sylvester Stallone
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. -- J. Philippe Rushton
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. -- Saint Augustine
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king -- Orson Pratt
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. -- Milton Avery
I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential. -- Tim Scott
Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. -- Deepak Chopra
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs. -- Kathryn Bigelow
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together. -- John Maeda
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. -- Thomas Griffith
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. -- Andre Gide
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions. -- Eric Kandel
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion. -- Tariq Ramadan
Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. -- Kristin Hersh
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs. -- Richard Ford
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them. -- Mohsin Hamid
I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him. -- Dan Fogelman
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. -- Galen Rowell
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on. -- William Henry Bragg
The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. -- William Whewell
The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core. -- Frederick Franck
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Human fears are very often irrational constructs of the mind. -- Matthew Reilly
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. -- Eugene Delacroix
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs. -- Adam Savage
Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer. -- James Cook
Time, money, etc... are human-made constructs. They are not real. They are completely made up. -- Julia Hill
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. -- H. L. Mencken
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. -- William Gibson
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past. -- Timothy Leary
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. -- George Bernard Shaw
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life. -- Scott Jurek
The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. -- Northrop Frye
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones. -- Allen Frances
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions. -- Eric Kandel
Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals. -- Tinashe
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can give a murky and distorted view. -- Jay Woodman
Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them. -- Mercedes McCambridge
Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors ARE controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs. -- Danny Boyle
Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen. -- Rita Mae Brown
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them. -- Andre Gide
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation. -- Albert Einstein
Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs. -- James Arthur
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail. -- Aristotle
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart. -- Marsha Norman
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from. -- Francis Bacon

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