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• If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.

  Christoph Waltz

  Car, Idiot, Truck

  Source: collider.com

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• I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.

  Tom Robbins

  Years, Cities, Two

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.13, Bantam

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• Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

  Jim Harrison

  Fire, House, Forgiving

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• Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Trustworthiness, Built

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander’s mouth and kissed the sphere’s glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love You, Eye, Reflection

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.17, Penguin

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• The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Nature, Animal, Cities

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• ...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system;... to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics-that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

  James Madison

  Military, Army, Gun

  First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1809.

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• The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Heart, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features are fractured and without anchor. A dishonest person may be kind, witty, and very capable, but the strength of character simply isn't there. Honesty does not come by degrees. A person is either all honest or he is dishonest. You can be true or you can be false, but you can't be both at the same time.

  William Grant Bangerter

  Witty, Honesty, Character

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• The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless.

  Jewel

  Lying, Fighting, Intelligent

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• The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Vices, Moral, Virtue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

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• The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Stones, Crystals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

  Kevin Leman

  Past, Guilt, Problem

  Kevin Leman (2011). “It's Your Kid, Not a Gerbil: Creating a Happier & Less-Stressed Home”, p.182, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Political, Purpose

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.1, HarperCollins

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• Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

  Woody Allen

  Marriage

  "What's New, Pussycat?", 1965.

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• Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Feet, Ice

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

  Peter Hedges

  Art, Lying, Giants

  Peter Hedges (1999). “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other
  so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community
  binds it indissolubly to God.

  St. Vincent

  Heart, Community, Charity

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• lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

  Paul Farmer

  Health, School, People

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• I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

  David Crosby

  Falling In Love, Albums, Firsts

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• New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.

  Michael J. Boskin

  Government, Voting, President

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• After I got divorced, I said to myself, I will never, ever get married again. It was in cement. I went through a really rough twenty-five years, but it happened again. I fell in love. I told her, Baby, I don't want a prenuptial agreement. This is it. Everyone told me I was nuts. Well, my new wife and I are married six years and we get along great. You can make anything work if you're both givers.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Baby, Agreement, Years

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.

  Dana Gould

  Gone, Reason, Used

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 29, 2013

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• I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.

  Huey Newton

  Teacher, Government, Literature

  Source: www.afro.com

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