Constructing Quotes
88 quotes by 85 authors
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On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental.…
— Stephen Harper
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It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.
— Stephen Harper
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One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in…
— Paul Dirac
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As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had…
— Sam Raimi
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It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then…
— Francisco Varela
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At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,'…
— Myla Goldberg
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The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from…
— David Gerrold
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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…
— Paul Ricoeur
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The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs…
— Carol J. Adams
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Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who…
— Erik Naggum
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching…
— Sol Stern
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Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
— Ernst Mach
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Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood....…
— John B. Watson
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The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take…
— Seymour Papert
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[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm…
— Danny Hillis
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It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,
— Antony Flew
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I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the…
— Alister MacKenzie
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I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from…
— Julian Clary
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