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Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix. Clive Barker

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on. William Henry Bragg

Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe that the traditional family structure - centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman - comports with nature and with our Judeo-Christian moral tradition. Charles T. Canady

Family Nature Man Woman Marriage Believe Our Moral Outdated One-Man Lawful Laws Rather Structure Constructs Animosity Merely Toward Between Tradition Traditional Traditional Family Were Traditional Marriage Families Family Structure Convention Centered Union Based Homosexuals

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. Deepak Chopra

Constructs Becomes Governs Body Activity Consciousness

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions. Eric Kandel

Thoughts Experience Emotions Organ Our Complex Immense Possessing Constructs Computational Brain Controls Sensory Capability Actions Biological

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. Galen Rowell

Watching 'Dark Crystal' now, having made Muppet films, it really strikes me just how ambitious that film is in terms of the constructs, the builds, the puppeteering. James Bobin

Me Dark Made Films Strikes Having Constructs Terms Crystal Builds How Ambitious Just Really Film Now Muppet Watching

When you really break it down to the way the world works, we're all little humans floating on a gas ball in the middle of space. That's the reality of our situation. And we've created these concepts and constructs that move us away from that. Lauren Jauregui

It is man - whether believer or non-believer - who is responsible for global unrest. And it is human beings who have to learn to co-exist in the 21st century, outside of divisive social constructs, religious or otherwise. Mehdi Hasan

Man Otherwise Responsible Religious Constructs Unrest Outside Divisive Global Learn Human Human Beings Whether Social Century Who Beings Believer

The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse. Michel Foucault

Book Field Unity Relative Complex Object Variable Only Remain Constructs Simply Soon Contains Within Discourse Loses Questions Itself Hands Cannot Holds Little Basis

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

First National Birds Our Flying Unnatural Borders Constructs Prospective Overhead Lines National Borders Artificial Impulse Maybe Them Us Ignore Maps

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. Paul Ricoeur

Character Constructing Constructs Identity Makes Narrative His Story Her

I know the importance of the number 10. In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks. Philippe Coutinho

Brazil Wears Constructs Attacks Importance Know Who Number

A girl's social networking profile is a persona she constructs, a photoshopped billboard on the information superhighway. It also offers a salve for the anxiety so many girls feel about relationships, providing the answers to burning social questions like, What do other people think of me? Do people like me? Am I normal? Am I popular? Am I cool? Rachel Simmons

Me People Anxiety Girl Think Other Relationships About Networking Constructs Feel Like Also She Am Answers Normal Providing Questions Offers Persona Burning Information Social Billboard Cool Many Popular Profile

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience. Rajiv Menon

Reality Entertaining Constructs Emotional Audience Connect Actor

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. Ray Kurzweil

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

Reality Space Mind Construct Constructs Contain Size

I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you're also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself. Sophie

You Yourself People Value Face Be Yourself Country Think Liberated Able Face Value About More Constructs Take Open Taken Feel Also Makes Understand Foreign Foreign Country Exist Place Which Social Certain Less

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion. Tariq Ramadan

Spiritual Memory Emotions Intelligence Collective Constructs Through Take Never Merely Intellectual Cultures Artistic Form Psychology Commonly Held Communion

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