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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
The British 'A Night to Remember' is so beautifully done and so well-constructed.
Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.
The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. — © Irvin D. Yalom
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that a complex system should be structured as a sequence of levels that are described using a sequence of languages. Each level is constructed by combining parts that are regarded as primitive at that level, and the parts constructed at each level are used as primitives at the next level. The language used at each level of a stratified design has primitives, means of combination, and means of abstraction appropriate to that level of detail.
There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.
Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.
We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people. — © Whitney Cummings
We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.
...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both are artificial forms. Both start off in one direction and then, with a twist of the concluding couplet/surprising ending, both reveal that they were headed somewhere different all the time.
I didn't hate Nirvana. That was more of a media-constructed this-versus-that thing.
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
I hate technically constructed actors. In fact, I hate anything technically constructed, unless it's a bridge.
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.
Reading 'The Last Days of Magic' is like playing a well-constructed video game.
Knowledge is constructed, not transferred
Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
A team is constructed with time and automatismos, habits, mechanisms.
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. — © Rasheed Ogunlaru
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
Love and self-esteem are constructed through likes and followers.
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.
Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds of parallels between the way that was being constructed and the way that prisons had been constructed since the early 1980s.
Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word. — © Desiderius Erasmus
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.
Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.
Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us.
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
Good stories are constructed, not found.
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
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