Building Up Quotes

• The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

  Jean Piaget

  Reality, Understanding, Mind

  "Homage to Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980)" by Ernst von Glasersfeld, "Irish Journal of Psychology", vol. 18, issue 3, pp. 293 - 306, 1997.

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• As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.

  Peter Russell

  People, Supportive, Momentum

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• No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Government, Southern

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Future, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1175, Delphi Classics

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• Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

  William Blake

  Christian, Lying, Deceit

  William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.258, Princeton University Press

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• Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Thinking, Support, Movement

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• Anyone wanting to proclaim the glory of Christ to the ends of the earth must consider not only how to declare the gospel verbally but also how to demonstrate the gospel visibly in a world where so many are urgently hungry. If I am going to address urgent spriitual need by sharing the gospel of Christ or building up the body of Christ around the world, then I cannot overlook dire physical need in the process.

  David Platt

  Needs, World, Body

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• Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Fields, Saws, Bigs

  "Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2010.

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• Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Statistics, Practicals

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Army, Leave Me Alone, Progress

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• For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.

  John Hoyt

  Education, Animal, Long

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• Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and every home. A continuation of the policies of the Republican party is fundamentally necessary to the future advancement of this progress and to the further building up of this prosperity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Party, Home

  Hoover, Herbert (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929”, p.589, Best Books on

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• It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Pain, Taken

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• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Book, Teaching

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• For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

  Carol Vorderman

  Retirement, Home, Stories

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• [Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are interested in building up their countries rather than destroying them, and doing so in a way that is sustainable and doesn't put a constant burden on the amazing men and women that we've got in uniform.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Men, Iraq

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.

  Brendon Urie

  Couple, Months, Vinyl

  "Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie On His New Album, 'Death Of A Bachelor'". Interview with Pip Williams, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.

  Mr. Lee

  Country, Regret, Needs

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• Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Caring, Giving, Meditation

  "This Buddhist Monk Has Unlocked The Secret To Happiness, And It May Help Us Save The Environment". Interview with Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.

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• Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building up our economy. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government. There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that. Therefore, our budget significantly expands our efforts to help them meet their responsibility. I hope you will support it.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Responsibility, Government

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• Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

  William Ellery Channing

  Battle, Labor, Conqueror

  William Ellery Channing (1867). “The Works of William E. Channing”, p.127

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• With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Scary, Together, Scare

  Source: collider.com

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• Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  People, Unity, Tasks

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been advocating. But I'm also advocating building up others. Build a small schoolhouse in Afghanistan to help a poor young girl have a say about her children will destroy the ideology more than a bomb.

  Rand Paul

  Girl, Children, Party

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

  Holliday Grainger

  Character, Important, Needs

  "Holliday Grainger Interview THE BORGIAS; Updates on BEL AMI and JANE EYRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2011.

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