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• The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.

  Steven Brust

  Stuff, Structure, Should

  Steven Brust (2003). “The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha”, p.396, Macmillan

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• And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Special, Sound, Firsts

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• All great innovations are built on rejections.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Rejection, Innovation, Rejected

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• When does a building actually become a built?

  Le Corbusier

  Doe, Architecture, Building

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• You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Whales, Stories

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• A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Mind, Fans

  "No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". Paper by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

  Jean Helion

  Art, Eye, Imagination

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• Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

  Aaron Levie

  Opportunity, People, Needs

  Twitter post from May 08, 2013

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• Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

  David Karp

  People, Use, Want

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• Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

  Rick Warren

  Giving Up, Integrity, Humility

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Creating, Our World

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Home, Kids

  Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet

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• Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

  Jack Kerouac

  Water, Walking On Water, Walking

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.169, Penguin

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• Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mean, Community, Identity

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• I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

  Mickey Cohen

  Men, Castles, East

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• The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

  David Brooks

  Views, Genius, Born

  David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.130, Short Books

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• I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

  Christopher Paolini

  Two, Teens, Stuff

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• Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Order, Law, Long

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.11, South End Press

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• As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Philosophical, Writing, Self

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• The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service. However, if it is to become a reality, it requires a process of education, a veritable mental renaissance. Once it has become a reality, national as well as international problems will fall into perspectives and become easier to solve. Wars and conflicts, too, will then become a thing of the past, because wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  U Thant

  War, Fall, Men

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• Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

  Caetano Veloso

  Cities, Knows, Destroyed

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• The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that - and I know that, because I have a Superman story I want to tell someday. In this story, Batman was the hero, so the world was built around him.

  Frank Miller

  Hero, Government, Stories

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• Scientists have just built the world's biggest supercollider, and they're doing experiments to see what makes up protons. I hope that if the experiment's successful, the whole of our reality will dissolve, and a big sign will up come that says: Level Two.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Successful

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• It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

  Kent Haruf

  Men, Land, Done

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• We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Frustration, Self, Expression

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