Constructs Quotes - Page 14

• War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.

  Maude Royden

  War, Mean, Ideas

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• The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain.

  Jon Spaihts

  Real, Roots, Understanding

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Graves, Heathen, Tombs

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable by addition simply, than any other mathematical principle, it was very appropriately selected as the basis on which to construct an Adding Machine, so as to give to the powers of such a machine the widest possible range.

  Ada Lovelace

  Mean, Differences, Numbers

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• It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

  Vanna Bonta

  Beautiful, Interesting, Poetry

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Book by Vanna Bonta., 2010.

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• The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
  must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Regret, Winning

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• The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

  Keith Rabois

  Dashboards, Firsts, Should

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• This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.

  Allen West

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.browardpalmbeach.com

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• How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.

  John Lennox

  Thinking, Would Be, Might

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

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• I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Want, Speak

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Justice, Trying

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• Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he though we were headed to Iraq.

  Chelsea Handler

  Airports, Iraq, Pockets

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

  Taryn Simon

  Two, Back And Forth, Blur

  "Taryn Simon's Visual Babel". Interview with Lauren Cornell, www.newyorker.com. August 2, 2012.

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• But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Mind, Important

  "Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness". Interview with Steve Donoso, thesunmagazine.org. July 2002.

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• The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Eye, Doe, Machines

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• I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?

  Steve Toltz

  Dream, Sick, Criminals

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• Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Reading, Escaping

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• I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.

  Piers Corbyn

  Queens, College, Class

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• Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

  Dan Chaon

  Memories, Self, Together

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• Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.

  Karl E. Weick

  People, Variables, Orderliness

  "Social Psychology of Organizing". Book by Karl E. Weick, p. 243, 1979.

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• As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

  Aristotle

  Writing, Firsts, Details

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3458, Delphi Classics

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• The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• ... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

  Samuel Florman

  Men, Engineering, Design

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• The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

  Northrop Frye

  Home, Simple, Men

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.443, University of Toronto Press

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• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Women, Order, Law

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.11, Grove Press

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