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• Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.

  Frances Trollope

  Mother, Women, America

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.225

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• letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

  Luce Irigaray

  Respect, Acceptance, Important

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.

  Ian Mcewan

  Phones, Like Love, Voice

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.148, Random House

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• God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Logic, Infinite

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.85, Wordsworth Editions

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• Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

  J.R. Ward

  Mind, Suffering, Needs

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.281, Penguin

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• What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Self Esteem, Done

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, (Aphorism 138), 1886.

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• The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us.

  Michele Flournoy

  Night, Organization, Weapons

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• Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.

  Hedi Slimane

  Beautiful, Hipster, Needs

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• The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Men, Average

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

  John Hersey

  Children, Fall, Vision

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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• The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

  Timothy Leary

  Reality, Brain, Robots

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.58, Ronin Publishing

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• The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

  Gerhard Richter

  Painting, Function, Painter

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

  Sigmund Freud

  Intellectual, Unity, Perception

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (2001). “Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics”, p.111, Psychology Press

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• It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.

  Henri Bergson

  Men, Essence, Definitions

  Henri Bergson (2012). “The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

  John Maeda

  Art, World, Matter

  "If Design's No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?" by John Maeda, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

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• We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

  Jean Houston

  Artist, Player, Men

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• I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

  Criss Jami

  People, Feel Good, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Design, Doubt

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.383, CUP Archive

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• Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Children, Revenge, Games

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