Building Quotes
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First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.
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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
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They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.
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I'd say every second building is damaged - some completely.
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You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.
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All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.
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Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.
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It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.
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A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
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The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.
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Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.
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Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.
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The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
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The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.
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I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.
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The most important thing will be building a bench of powerhouse progressives in elected office and in the next administration. Bernie Sanders has an enormous spotlight that he can shine on champions that are following the Sanders path of really building from the left.
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I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.
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Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty
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This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.
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The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.
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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
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I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.
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Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.
