Pyramids Quotes - Page 4

• Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Top Down, Israel, Trying

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• You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Looks, Agents, Inches

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong.

  Ayn Rand

  Strong, Men, Egalitarianism

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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• No building is better than its structural foundation, and no man (woman) is better than his (her) mental foundation. When I prepared my original Success Pyramid years ago, I put industriousness and enthusiasm as the two cornerstones with LOYALTY right in the middle of the pyramid - Loyalty to yourself and to all those dependent upon you.

  John Wooden

  Loyalty, Athlete, Men

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• Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Two, Evil, Giving

  "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.

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• Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued.

  Robert Spector

  Powerful, Long, Levels

  Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy (2012). “The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: The Handbook For Becoming the "Nordstrom" of Your Industry”, p.47, John Wiley & Sons

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• I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

  Garry Winogrand

  Saws, Different, Sphinx

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?

  John Henrik Clarke

  Home, Egypt, White

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, [This] was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many people as possible.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Icons, People

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship.

  Dan Smoot

  Government, America, People

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• Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

  Ayn Rand

  Equality, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Top Down, Pyramid Schemes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

  Adolf Galland

  War, World, Down And

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• The pyramid would start at the bottom: you don't know who you are or what you're intended to do in life. And so, the X factor - the ingredient that will make you powerful, that will make you successful is your energy and drive and your tenacity. If you've got that, there's nothing in the world that's going to stop you.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, Successful, Energy

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I maintain my conviction that there are NO pyramids at Visoko, Bosnia.
  Rather, all the so-called pyramids are the result of natural geological processes
  and phenomena that are currently being 'excavated' (i.e., modified) to look
  like pyramids.

  Robert M. Schoch

  Bosnia, Looks, Natural

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• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  Dan Brown

  Art, Rome, Paris

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• I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Egypt, Kind, Interest

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• The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

  Tom Vilsack

  Giving, Doe, Complicated

  "Plate icon to guide Americans to healthier eating" by Madison Park, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

  Dan Brown

  Doors, Answers, Harvard

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Band, Wagons, Found

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• You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Dad, Men

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Debra Ginsberg (2006). “Blind Submission: A Novel”, p.4, Crown

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• A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!

  Jim Ferree

  Gratitude, People, Messages

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• As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Tower Of Babel, Towers

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• The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

  David Berg

  Garden, Cities, Heaven

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