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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.
The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back.
I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.
Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.
On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.
I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.
Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.
Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
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.
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.
Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.
There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!
When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.
Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.
To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality.
The best progressive policies are constructed by learning from past experiences while striving toward a more equitable future.
It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.
The vast masterpieces of art, business, science, and humanity were not constructed by practical people.
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.
The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle is cleverly constructed.
