That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority… — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The thing about living in a place like Nebraska is there aren't that many people, so your circle of acquaintances is going… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. And… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
One day I was watching these construction workers go back to work. I was watching them kind of trudging down the street.… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Our infrastructure of bridges, roads and ports has been given a D-level rating by many civil engineer societies. The government should shift… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet… — Sergei Korolev Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Importantly, in several years when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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