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• The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.

  David Ayer

  Trying, Different, Chasing

  Source: collider.com

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• Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

  Ruth Hubbard

  Decision, Facts, Scientist

  Ruth Hubbard, Elijah Wald (1993). “Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that has happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature. One is surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realised in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great, great joy.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Joy, Mind, World

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• It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Important, Needs, Obsessive

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• Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

  James Cook

  Prayer, Soul, Live Your Life

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• If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

  Hammurabi

  Fall, House, Doe

  Hammurabi (1996). “The Code of Hammurabi”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

  Jon Meacham

  Heart, Hands, Different

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• Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

  Albert Pike

  Mysterious, Holy, Form

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• Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  World, Use, Illusion

  "Mahmoud Darwish" by Peter Clark, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2008.

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• They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Important, Needs

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• [ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents].

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Breakup, Pain, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!

  Josh McDowell

  New York, Mistake, Philosophy

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• All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

  Umberto Eco

  Loss, People, Fake

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Writing, Thinking, Identity

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• Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Imagination, Looks

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• What generations created, the Left destroys. There are few productive and noble institutions in America that the Left has not hurt or attempted to hurt. But while the Left destroys a great deal, it constructs almost nothing (outside of government agencies, laws, and lawsuits).

  Dennis Prager

  Hurt, Agency, Government

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• My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.

  Peter Blegvad

  Ignorance, Would Be, Records

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

  Jim Woodring

  Drawing, Cartoon, Definitions

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

  Dana Spiotta

  Thinking, Way, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there is body of scientific knowledge that can be applied, then it would be foolish not to exploit it. However, if there is none, it does not mean that the thing cannot be designed, made, and used safely.

  Henry Petroski

  Mean, Availability, Doe

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• We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism... We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Doors, Feet

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard C. Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Lying, Kind, Consciousness

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 4), 1961.

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• Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil and the issue of gender to construct an image of oppression or to describe the 'silenced' Iranian woman, western intellectuals, policymakers, and publishing houses are all quick to introduce them as presenters of the authentic Iranian experience.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Issues, Publishing House, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Narrative, Firsts

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

  Dan Fogelman

  Guy, Puppets, Above And Beyond

  "The Neighbors' Dan Fogelman on turning a critical flop into 'an unstoppable beast'". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 02, 2013.

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