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• You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

  Alejandra Pizarnik

  Bird, Beaten, Finished

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• Everything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.

  Geoff Ryman

  Moving, Light, Sky

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• O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Wall, Mean, Men

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• Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Teenager, Home, Beer

  Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

  Eric Whitacre

  Spiritual, Believe, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Eric Whitacre from Nov 20, 2012

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• Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Charity, May, Hope And Faith

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Correspondence”, p.40

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• The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

  H. G. Wells

  Character, Peaceful, India

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• Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Heavyweights, Prepared, Persons

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• Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

  Roger Stone

  Committees, Statues

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• When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of
  unconverted church members.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Past, Men

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• We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Disappointment, Settings

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.185, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at all, she had built an empire. Eleanor had it all. Her one weakness was the young man sleeping beside her.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Beautiful, Sleep, Men

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• We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from Apollo 11.

  Neil Armstrong

  Good Night, Heart, People

  Excerpts from Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, edited by Edgar M. Cortright, NASA SP-350, Washington, DC, amview.japan.usembassy.gov. 1975.

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• A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Character, Perfect, Source

  Sri Chinmoy (1972). “Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays”

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• For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Two, Deep Thought

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Sunshine, Air, Secret

  "The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century: A Dictionary of Quotations‎". Book by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226, 1987.

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• Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Blood, Sweat

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• In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.
  Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.
  Feeling is frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Feelings, Mind, Pathways

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.187, Random House

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• Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure.  That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

  Matthew Syed

  Progress, Foundation, Essentials

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• The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

  Mary Fallin

  Dream, Moving, Oklahoma

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• In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

  Charles James

  Fashion, Cement, Fragile

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• I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

  Richard MacDonald

  Art, Jobs, School

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• I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

  Carl Jung

  House, Towers, Stones

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.

  Israel Shamir

  Christian, Years, Long

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• Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.

  John Cena

  Strong, Pain, Wwe

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