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That which builds is better than that which is built.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Penguin

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eye, Men, Blue

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.532, Harvard University Press

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From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a
container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than
what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies? Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?

Paige Bradley

Race, Numbers, World

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From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.

Paige Bradley

Strong, Wall, Attachment

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Remember that a healthy body is built or destroyed one decision at a time. It's up to you.

Tosca Reno

Decision, Healthy, Up To You

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I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.

Bristol Palin

Strong, Athlete, Tough

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Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Dickens

Taken, Skeletons, Wind

Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Adam Savage

Way, Toys, Facts

"Adam Savage on becoming a maker". www.wired.com. July 4, 2012.

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A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

Maria Montessori

Law, Adults, Prejudice

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Mark Twain

Beautiful, Lying, Perfection

"The Stolen White Elephant: Etc". Book by Mark Twain, p. 220-221, 1882.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

Oscar Wilde

Brother, Men, Bars

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Land, America, Perfection

Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave every one his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon.

Josephus

Men, Wind, Cities

Flavius Josephus (1852). “The works of Flavius Josephus: the learned and authentic Jewish historian”, p.54

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What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.

Bertrand Russell

Life, Ocean, Night

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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Agnes Repplier

Common, Relation, Interest

Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

Salmon P. Chase

Country, Mistake, Agency

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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

Alexander Hamilton

Garden, House, Usual

Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.551

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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

Walter Savage Landor

Tyrants, Foundation, Earth

Walter Savage Landor (1901). “Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern”

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On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.

Norman Cousins

Strong, Laughter, Health

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness, Foundation, Virtue

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Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.

Joe Greene

Unique, People, Political

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Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

David Ben-Gurion

Country, Russia, America

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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Karl Kraus

Art, Writing, Character

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

Lenny Bruce

Lying, Next Week, Comedian

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When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.

Neil Postman

Responsibility, Two, People

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