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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests. — Chuck Close
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all… — Honore de Balzac
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel… — Barbara Ehrenreich
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it… — Georges Cuvier
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their… — Simon Schama
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and… — Horace-Benedict de Saussure
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;… — E.S. Russell
...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she… — William Crookes
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect… — Franz Boas
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would… — Allan Bloom
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
In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most… — Joseph Stalin
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt… — Daniel Kahneman
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to… — Kit Williams
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,… — L. Tom Perry
We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a… — Otto Neurath
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you… — Odysseas Elytis

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