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277 quotes by 252 authors

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. — Haruki Murakami
There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion… — Harry Frankfurt
Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the… — Daniel J. Siegel
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may… — Aaron Allston
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed;… — Walter Benjamin
By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. — John le Carre
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
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with the faith you… — Brian D. McLaren
I donâ€™t know why life isnâ€™t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations,… — Anne Lamott
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. — Irvin D. Yalom
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't… — Sidney Poitier
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the… — Murray Rothbard
The deeper reality is that Iâ€™m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that Iâ€™m certain about how I feel, but… — Chuck Klosterman
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete… — Murray Rothbard
I say, I donâ€™t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had… — Dorothy L. Sayers
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass.… — Tana French
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has… — Ravi Zacharias
What a strange phrase â€” â€“not seeing other people. As if itâ€™s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time.… — David Levithan

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