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• We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Society, Trying

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• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Two, Effort

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Silly, Race, People

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• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Enjoy Life, Leisure

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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• The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Pain, Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.82, Macmillan

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• I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

  Ian Hart

  Careers, America, Teeth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king

  Orson Pratt

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Kings

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.11, Latter-day Strength

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• In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

  Spencer Bachus

  Block, Government, Community

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• Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

  Kristin Hersh

  Guitar, Media, Play

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• I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential.

  Tim Scott

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.

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• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  Salman Rushdie

  Acceptance, Reality, Air

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Powerful, Men

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• We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Reality, Use, Coins

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• I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

  Tim Scott

  Running, Believe, Moving

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• I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

  Milton Avery

  Independent, Unique, Impact

  Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”

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• What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Trying, Quality, Ephemeral

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• Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Greek, Rumor

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• Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Space, Mind

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

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• The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Jobs, Real, Creative

  "Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction". Book by John Bourne, p. 11, 2000.

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• Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Motivational, Determination, Opportunity

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• There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

  Toni Morrison

  Race, Racism, Social

  "Toni Morrison Breaks Down The Reality Of Race On The Colbert Report" by Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.

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

  Eugene Delacroix

  Imagination, Looks

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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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