Constructions Quotes

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The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions. — Wystan Hugh Auden
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all… — Thomas Jefferson
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings:… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me… — Evangelista Torricelli
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews… — Fred Rodell
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge… — Jacques Barzun
The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from… — Stanton Peele
I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects… — John A. Keel
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. — Wendell Berry
Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of… — James P. Hogan
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that… — William James
I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner. — Franz Kafka
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing… — Chuck Klosterman
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and… — Zadie Smith
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinthsâ€¦ — Roberto Bolano
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I… — F. Sionil Jose
For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the… — Edi Rama
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant… — Seth Shostak
The text is a limited field of possible constructions. — Paul Ricoeur
I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads,… — Stanley Bing

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