Built Quotes - Page 17

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  Faye Wattleton

  Mother, Religious, Order

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• The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

  Peter Høeg

  Reality, Bridges, Balance

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Tales of the Night”, p.309, Macmillan

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• Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk)

  Joan Bauer

  Mom, Business, Believe

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Thwonk”, p.17, Penguin

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• Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

  Andrew Mason

  Writing, Marketing, Culture

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• The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

  Booker T. Washington

  Sight, Class, House

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.

  Shemp Howard

  Rome, Watersheds, Syracuse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.

  Arthur Koestler

  Eye, Men, Animal

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• I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Greatness, Organization

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• With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

  Sharon Begley

  Player, Eight, Ipods

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• Whoever prays twelve rakats during the night and day, a house will be built for him in paradise. Four before dhuhr, and two after, two rakats after maghrib, two rakats after ishaa, and two rakats before fajr prayer.

  Muhammad

  Prayer, Islamic, Night

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• Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.

  SQuire Rushnell

  Spiritual, Gps, People

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• Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

  Martin Durkin

  Careers, Alarms, Ugly

  "The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 18, 2007.

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• There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.

  Empedocles

  Nature, Hate, Environmental

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• Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Criticism, Way, Psychologist

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

  Vikas Swarup

  Machines, Body, Obsolescence

  Vikas Swarup (2013). “The Accidental Apprentice”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The business of beauty isn't a natural model;
  It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple.
  These magazines got you caught in a hustle,
  Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.

  Immortal Technique

  Rap, Opposites, Hip Hop

  Song: Natural Beauty, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• This country of ours was built on violence;
  If your ass got in the way, you was killed in silence.
  And these been the ways since back in the days:
  Just ask the Indians or the African slaves.

  Masta Ace

  Country, Rap, Silence

  Song: The Ways, Album: A Long Hot Summer

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• It was you that chose your due,
  You built a maze you can't get through.
  I tried to help you all I can,
  Now I can't do nuttin' for you, man!

  Flavor Flav

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

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• If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war.
  If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours.

  MF Grimm

  Girl, War, Rap

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• Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Presidential, Four, Pillars

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1077, Best Books on

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• We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Two, Presidential

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Moral Fiber, Law

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933”

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• If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Believe, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Interviews”

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• We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

  John Wayne

  Revolution, Used, Forts

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• The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Office, Foundation

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