Constructed Quotes
277 quotes by 254 authors
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Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can…
— Anatol Rapoport
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I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
— Jane Haddam
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There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and…
— Ted Simon
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Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far…
— Andrew Davidson
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I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated…
— Richard Foreman
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Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.
— Gerald Fischbach
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I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone…
— Kate Klise
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Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the…
— Slavoj Žižek
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use…
— Albert Mackey
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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word…
— Noam Chomsky
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Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through…
— Philip E. Agre
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It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken — it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.…
— Sugata Mitra
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We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that…
— Hal Abelson
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Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
— Pope John Paul II
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Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over…
— Isaac Mayer Wise
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