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• Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

  Anthony de Jasay

  Focus, Democracy, Conflict

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• The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

  Frederick Franck

  Delusional, Infallible, Core

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 74, 1985.

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• Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.

  E. O. Wilson

  Faith, Dream, Age

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• When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

  China Mieville

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

  Linus Torvalds

  Simple, Use, Helping

  Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, September 07, 2007.

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• It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.

  Louis de Broglie

  Space, Littles, Paradoxical

  "Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference". Book by Guido Bacciagaluppi and Antony Valentini, Cambridge University Press, p. 346, 2009.

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• Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Impact, Historical, Church

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.

  Paul Laseau

  Space, Perspective, Sketching

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• Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.

  Peter Padfield

  Philosophy, Struggle, Past

  Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

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• The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Imagination, Effort

  Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

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• There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point. These configurations are ideas. Ideas are primitive constructs, symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Mirrors, Ideas

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• It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.

  Robert M. Price

  Jesus, Uncles, Historical

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• Let's admit that feminism came from liberalism and it was very positive. But then it went dark. It went into a bad place. When feminism replaced biology with social construct, they started to say that everything about a human being was created by your environment or by your - by environmental cues as opposed to innate traits... Like you didn't achieve what you could get because it was your fault. They denied traits that are applied across all cultures. And that's where feminism went wrong is it denied biology and makes them look foolish.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dark, Feminism, Culture

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Dog, Horse, Believe

  "Nature and the Greeks". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1954.

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• I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stars, Believe, Heart

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• The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

  Andre Gide

  Character, Voice, Novelists

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• I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

  Boyd Holbrook

  House, Building, Architect

  "Boyd Holbrook On Film". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2014.

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• Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Vision, Privilege, Youth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.28

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• Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Arches, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 295, 1895.

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• Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Men, Gentleman, Males

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.232, Bantam

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• It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Personality

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Tasks, Culture

  Susan Sontag, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (2003). “Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung”

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• Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.

  Berenice Abbott

  Hurt, Self, Understanding

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• You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

  Richard Rohr

  Creating, Giving, Ego

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

  Jerry Stahl

  Drama, Needs

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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