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• You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Waiting, World

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.229, Delacorte Press

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• As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).

  Fernando Pessoa

  Home, Perfect, Remember

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• I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and women, too, to some degree, they are automatically given higher quotes, worse deals. And this was just documented extensively across auto dealerships around the country. There was a tax being imposed on black folks. By collecting that data, you can construct policies to combat that.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Data, Black

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.

  Tim Wise

  Race, Racism, Identity

  Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.8, Soft Skull Press

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• What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Trying, Shapes, Consideration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Trying

  "La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

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• There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Stars, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?

  Frank Beddor

  Niece, Stupid, Cat

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• Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.

  Bell Hooks

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• Time is a mind construct. It's not real.

  Prince

  Real, Mind

  "Prince: 'I'm a musician. And I am music'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

  Michael Moore

  Order, Asking, Economic

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• These narrow-footed forms I was making, I thought, gosh, I could push those further, not to construct them the way [Hans] Coper did but to work in my own manner but push it more toward that form. And I learned to do that and enjoyed it for a number of years.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Years, Numbers, Way

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think there are times when human beings open our psychic field: when they're in love, when they're with another person that they resonate with, when they're having a wonderful experience of any kind. We feel the essence of life in a different way that allows us to experience the presence of God as, I would call it, a functioning, physical reality and not just a mental construct or conceptualization.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Reality, Thinking, Essence

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• I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Dream, Trying, Landscape

  Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

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• Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Space, Different

  "Anything Beyond The Universe? New Theory Changes Our Destiny" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2010.

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• Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Discipline, Stories, Nonfiction

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• Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Bird, Flying, Firsts

  "Now that I've finally been admitted to Britain it seems that everyone else suddenly wants to leave" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2008.

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• I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

  Henry Louis Gates

  Lying, Race, African American

  "Colored People: A Memoir". Book by Henry Louis Gates, therumpus.net. 1994.

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• What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kids, Stories, Littles

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• I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

  Roger Federer

  Careers, Scare, Way

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• The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as I've gotten older. I have a lot of choices about the story that I'm telling myself about my life. So where do I find meaning?

  Jason Segel

  Choices, Stories, Narrative

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

  Bill Bryson

  People, Want, Misanthropic

  "'You have only so many jokes'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2002.

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• When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Zero, Hero, Men

  "From Refugees To Politics, Mohsin Hamid Writes The Change He Wants To See". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 9, 2018.

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• In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Order, Inspire

  "Celebrating Faith, Altruism And Our Modern Community" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

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• Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

  Stacy Schiff

  Long, Males, Shapes

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