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Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

Russell M. Nelson

Two, People, Funny Marriage

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Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

Henry Ford

Nascar Racing, Funny Racing, Minutes

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I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

Jay Leno

Car, Noble, Claire

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Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

Scott McClanahan

Nice, Book, Army

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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

Judith Hand

Uplifting, War, Caring

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If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

Frantz Fanon

Bridges, Justice, Diversity

Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believe, Hard Work, Black And White

"Secretary Zinke, we can't afford to ignore diversity" by Andre Perry, www.cnn.com. March 27, 2018.

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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

John Stuart Mill

Gymnastics, Justice, Diversity

John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

Anna Louise Strong

Thinking, Sweat, Pyramids

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... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Believe, People, Profound

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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

Padma Lakshmi

Wine, Emotional, Thinking

"And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview by Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

Ronald Reagan

Wall, Ocean, Blessed

Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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Every great business is built on friendship.

James Cash Penney

Inspirational, Educational, Loyal Customers

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I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

Helen Keller

Educational, Names, Smell

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You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Success, Sports, Littles

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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Ernest Hemingway

Bad Ass, Bullshit, Ass

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Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

John C. Wright

Uplifting, Dream, Brother

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Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

CM Punk

Hater, Empires, Bricks

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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If you're built like a freight train, you can't drive around like a Volkswagen.

Clark Gillies

Hockey, Nhl, Volkswagens

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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Larry Niven

Technology, Space, Should Have

Space.com Interview with S. James Blackman, February 10, 2000.

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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Patricia Cornwell

Morning, War, Ocean

Patricia Cornwell (2005). “From Potter's Field”, p.355, Penguin

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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

Byron Katie

Stress, Alarms, Purpose

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It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.

Subhas Chandra Bose

Army, Perfect, Justice

Subhas Chandra Bose (1946). “Important speeches and writings of Subhas Bose: being a collection of most significant speeches and writings of Subhas Bose”

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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Napoleon Hill

Nature, Goal, House

Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.101, Penguin

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This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

Brooks Atkinson

Men, Risk, Dreamer

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