Rebuilding Quotes - Page 6

• When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.

  Edwin Land

  Athlete, Past, Games

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• God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Games, Play, Heaven

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• Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?

  Arthur Carhart

  Character, America, People

  Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (1955). “Timber in Your Life”

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• We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Commitment, Oil, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Iraq, Pay

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• Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

  Harri Holkeri

  Party, Succeed

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• There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Real, Principles, Answers

  "Free Press doesn’t mean Free Lunch" by Rick Carnes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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• Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Roles, Difficult, Afghanistan

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• I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

  Michael Pollan

  Simple, Thinking, Long

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Morality, Elegance

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• The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Tuberculosis, Looks

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

  Mike Pence

  Israel, America, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

  Michael Shannon

  Destroyed

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