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• A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

  George Orwell

  Writing, Mind, Trying

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• Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

  Ryan Adams

  Fame, Unnatural

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

  Sherman Alexie

  Song, Tape, Firsts

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• God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or that others construct for you. Rather, He is interested in you, the you who suffers, the you who inflicts suffering on others, the you who hides, the you who has bad days (and good ones). And He meets you where you are.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Bad Day, Thinking, Suffering

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.92, David C Cook

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• of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct

  Charles Olson

  Knowing, Rhythm

  Charles Olson (1997). “Collected Prose”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Father, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.45, Routledge

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• The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Adventure, Creative, Joy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.154, Routledge

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• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  Manning Marable

  Black And White, Self, America

  Manning Marable (1995). “Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics”, p.202, Verso

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• Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Scream, Beats

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• There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

  John Maeda

  Machines, Way, Computer

  "Watson Is No Match for Humanity" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

  Tayari Jones

  Way, Modern, Adolescence

  "Coming to the Festival of Books: Tayari Jones". Los Angeles Times Interview, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 25, 2011.

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• The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).

  Erwin Chargaff

  Character, Successful, Science

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• Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Space, Orbit

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• Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insanity, Inquiry

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Martian Time-Slip”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 nature, regardless of what we believe or say about it. We are more likely to be satisfied with the outcome, if we work with our biology rather than against it. We will be happier if we face reality on its own terms.

  Jennifer Morse

  Love, Believe, Reality

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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 community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

  Plato

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.

  Claudio Magris

  Art, Should Have, Creating

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• Most people confuse the "now" with what is happening to them in the now. Actually what is happening to you now has nothing to do with the present moment itself. If you were to suddenly die the present moment would remain. The problem occurs when we attach in our minds with what is happening to "us" presently. This is simply a mental construct that we have created ourselves. It is much like a grievance, either real or imagined. If we attach to grievances we are constantly inflicting suffering on ourselves, not the other party.

  Stephen Weiss

  Real, Party, People

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• Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature.

  Simon Schama

  Funny, Animal, Thinking

  "Preview", www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.

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• Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

  Thom Mayne

  Patience, Time, Writing

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• Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

  Charles Capps

  Block, Building, Building Blocks

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• The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

  Scott Jurek

  Grace, Attention, World

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.105, A&C Black

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• To know the world, one must construct it

  Cesare Pavese

  Wisdom, World, Knows

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.

  Jamake Highwater

  People, Legacy, Outsiders

  Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

  Claude Lanzmann

  Powerful, Wanted

  "IFC Films to Re-Release Landmark Documentary Shoah" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 2, 2010.

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