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• Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

  Epictetus

  Character, Pay The Price, Volunteer

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Acceptance

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• Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Science

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

  Terry Pratchett

  Anchors, Common Sense, Flying

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34)”, p.405, Random House

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• We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Metaphor, Trapped

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• My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

  Jodi Picoult

  Family, Mother, Instinct

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.

  Jimenez Lai

  Philosophical, Reality, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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 mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.

  James Lovelock

  Morning, Thinking, Imagination

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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 a paradise within a year.

  Malala Yousafzai

  School, Years, Rivers

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.115, Hachette UK

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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 in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Doors, Numbers, Want

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• We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

  Paul Klee

  Intuition, Good Things, Stills

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.159, Parkstone International

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• The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.

  Chuck Wendig

  Art, Crazy, Writing

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• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Memories, Collective Memory

  Tariq Ramadan (2012). “Islam and the Arab Awakening”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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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 rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, People, Earth

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

  William Gibson

  Flow, Strange, Forget

  William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.37, Penguin

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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 it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.

  Angela Davis

  Daughter, Queens, Kings

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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 or a shitty opinion, and comics I don’t think can ever fall into the trap of any groups that want to censor what a person says or thinks or punish a person for expressing what they think. Anything you say about a social issue is going to offend half the country. I don’t care how nicely you say it, I don’t care how well you construct the joke, simply by stating the opinion, you are for something and anti something else.

  Jim Norton

  Country, Fall, Thinking

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• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Book, Reading

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• Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Book, Character

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• The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Religious

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

  Salman Rushdie

  Friends, Mother, Character

  "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.

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• The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

  Orson Scott Card

  Memories, Mean, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Mind, Etching

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview with David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

  Nancy Hale

  Home, Trying, Natural

  Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

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