Fabrication Quotes

• Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

  Samuel Florman

  Technological, Engineers, Products

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• Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.

  Margaret Atwood

  Comfort, Obvious

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.85, Canongate Books

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• Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Wine, Ought

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• A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Differences, Roles

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

  Hannah Arendt

  Action, Isolation, Capacity

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to know me who don't really know me. They know the work, or they know the persona in the work, and they confuse that with me, the writer. They don't realize that the persona is also a creation and a fabrication, a composite of my friends and myself all pasted together.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mistake, People, Together

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• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mistake, Lying, Air

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication."

  Ted Cruz

  Honesty, World, Hours

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Zero, Order, Justice

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• Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Often Can, People

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• We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Pro Life, Abortion, Statistics

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• The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. This is the necessary first step along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying, humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Cutting, Reality, Long

  "The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters".

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• There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

  Noam Chomsky

  Vietnam, Syndromes

  Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2004.

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• Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

  Max Tundra

  My Own, Rooted, Sheer

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Essence

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• No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science ignores them. But to claim they are a fabrication and do not exist because science ignores them is a mistake. Because ghosts are real.

  Natsuhiko Kyogoku

  Real, Mistake, Ghost

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• Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Eye, Reality, Taught Us

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.22, A&C Black

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• I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.

  Ted Cruz

  Character, Warrior, Example

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I never did any of things I was accused of. It was a total fabrication.

  Kurt Busch

  Accused

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• We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Father, Ignorance

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• We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

  Learned Hand

  Real, Winning, Done

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the readiness of governments to harm the very people that they claimed they were protecting by building these weapons for national security reasons. In general, this harm was inflicted on people in disregard of democratic norms. Secrecy, fabrication of data, cover-ups in the face of attempted public inquiry, and even human experiments without informed consent have all occurred in nuclear weapons production and testing programs.

  Arjun Makhijani

  Government, Data, People

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• I'm jumping in right now. And I'm going to say that everybody I know has a 'day I met CM Punk story' and they're all 100% fabrication. It's all bullshit. Thank you.

  CM Punk

  Jumping, Wwe, Bullshit

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