Constructs Quotes
307 quotes by 279 authors
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Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and…
— Margaret Beckett
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...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur…
— Noel Ignatiev
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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's…
— May Sarton
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind…
— Philip Roth
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I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.
— Julie Christie
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If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who…
— Ann Coulter
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It just seems like right now we’re in a place where people are being witch-hunted for expressing an opinion. Even if it’s a lousy opinion…
— Jim Norton
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by…
— Angela Davis
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
— William Gibson
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside…
— Edward Abbey
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
— Philip K. Dick
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We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
— Paul Klee
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If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public…
— William Randolph Hearst
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If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become…
— Malala Yousafzai
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my…
— James Lovelock
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Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice,…
— John Welwood
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We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a specific…
— Jennifer Morse
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... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole…
— Plato
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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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