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• Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

  Gayle Forman

  Trying, Different, Way

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• I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, House, Boards

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• There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

  Buck Rodgers

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.

  Gore Vidal

  Teacher, Simple, Sea

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• It is my conviction that nothing enduring
  can be built on violence.
  The only safe way to overcome an enemy
  is to make of that enemy a friend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Enemy, Overcoming

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• To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.

  Pope Paul VI

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1980*). “On the development of peoples”

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• People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

  Cab Calloway

  Music, Mind, Ordinary

  "Of Minnie the Moocher and Me".

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• Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

  Harold Urey

  Cities, Feet, History

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• It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

  Howard Ruff

  Inspirational, Monday, Time

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• And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, June, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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• It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.

  Dan Wells

  Winning, Order, Play

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• Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that order structured into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Peace, War, Men

  "Gaudium et Spes". § 78, December 7, 1965.

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• God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

  Sarah Palin

  God, People, Church

  "Kissing the Jewish vote goodbye". Sarah Palin's speech to a group of graduating students in her church, Wasilla Assembly of God, Alaska, www.theguardian.com. June, 2008.

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• The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Wall, Heart, Perfect

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• Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

  Zig Ziglar

  Relationship, Money, Attractiveness

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.74, Pelican Publishing

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• Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sadness, Soul, Bees

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

  Alain Enthoven

  Peace, Weapons, Matter

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• Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Peace, Abuse, Foundation

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• Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

  William James

  Life, Wall, Moving

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Strong, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.346

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• All my successes have been built on my failures.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Failure, Failure Inspirational, Has Beens

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• Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

  Jason Calacanis

  Business, Fortune

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• Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

  Andrea Gibson

  Fire, Volcanoes, Land

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• Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Years, Guarantees, Life Experience

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• Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.

  Gayle Forman

  Purpose, Persons, Ifs

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.168, Penguin

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