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• Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

  Paul Goldberger

  Bears, Architecture, Structure

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• In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

  Henry Wotton

  Art, Three, Delight

  'Elements of Architecture' (1624) pt. 1

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• We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.

  Albert Hadley

  Strong, Talking, Design

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• You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year 1950. That was the year when the government held free and fair election, was defeated and simply withdrew from power and handed it over to the opposition, without precedent in Middle Eastern history. That was a really remarkable time and it was a fascinating and rewarding experience to be there at that time.

  Bernard Lewis

  Democracy, Election, Defeated

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• Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Block, Smart

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Ideas, People

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• Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Organization, Firsts

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• Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Powerful, Technology

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Success, Roi, Saying Hello

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• Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

  Fisher Ames

  Fire, Historical, Democracy

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• Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we've succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we've made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven't evolved at all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Pyramids, Fire

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• The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  America, Understanding, Historical

  "The Age of the Americas: An Address Delivered at the Parrish Memorial Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, September 6, 1942".

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• Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Father, Israel, Years

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• We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Motivational, Thinking, Self

  "The Grass is Greener ... On Both Sides". Jordan Business magazine, December 2006.

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• I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Government, People

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• Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

  David Brooks

  Character, People, Leave Me Alone

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• They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Children, School

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• Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me,
  Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest,
  Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed,
  By cursed Cain's race invented be,
  And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

  John Donne

  Art, Science, Race

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Religious, Islamic, Dhikr

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• There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States but around the world.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Goal, United States

  “CNN Newsroom”, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2013.

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• Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we're doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we've had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Hands, Understanding

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• The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social and most things don’t use your real identity. We’re building toward a web where the default is social.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Real, Important, Identity

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• The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Uplifting, Heart, Hands

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• A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Struggle, Men

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• Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  People, Church, Dollars

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