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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. View quote
Henry Ford
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room. View quote
Jules Renard
The house of delusions is cheap to build, but draughty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall. (A. E. Housman)
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. View quote
Ray Bradbury
All experience is an arch, to build upon. View quote
Henry Adams
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. View quote
Terry Pratchett
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. View quote
Warren Buffett
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. View quote
Knute Rockne
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. (Sam Rayburn)
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
When we build, let us think that we build for ever. View quote
John Ruskin
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. View quote
Livy
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