Pyramids Quotes - Page 7

• Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

  John Maynard Keynes

  War, Earthquakes, Principles

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Running, Animal, Two

  "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Glasses, Forever, Body

  "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.144

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• Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• ...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.

  Michael Tsarion

  Khufu, Pharaohs, Building

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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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• Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Liberty, Lines, Pages

  "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.

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• The top of the Great Pyramid [.....] there's no capstone on the pyramid. Till the year 2000 celebrations when George Bush [Snr.] and some of these guys put a phony one up there. See, they think they are going to have a new world order, and they probably are.

  Kent Hovind

  Thinking, Order, Years

  "Evolution: the Foundation for Communism, Nazism, Socialism, and the New World Order". Documentary video by Kent Hovind, DVD, 2003.

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• Im fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?

  Elena Satine

  Looks, Want, Spaceships

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

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• Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

  Brigham Young

  Serious, Pursuit, Recreation

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• The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

  Brigham Young

  People, Heaven, Amusement

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• People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

  John Wanamaker

  Funny, Time, People

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• You will meet people who believe all network marketing opportunities are pyramid schemes. Why spend all your time trying to convince them otherwise when there are legions of people who are open to what you have?

  Randy Gage

  Believe, Opportunity, Mlm

  Randy Gage (2001). “How to build a multi-level money machine: the science of network marketing”, p.94, Internet Profit Kit

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• Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

  Alan Kay

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Technology

  "A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman in ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Night, Cities, Mind

  J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

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• If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.

  Wallace Stegner

  Art, Character, Thinking

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

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• Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

  Tracy Kidder

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

  Murray Bookchin

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1982.

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• Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.

  Ivan Illich

  Teacher, School, Knowing

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• Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

  James Turrell

  Writing, Technology, Profound

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• I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below.

  Donald Trump

  Pyramid Schemes, Mlm, Marketing

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• Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Design, Als, Vegetarian

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• When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.

  Donald Trump

  Pyramid Schemes, Direct Sales, Corporations

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• Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the United States and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the thirteen courses of the pyramid may represent thirteen time-periods of thirteen years each.

  Paul Foster Case

  Years, Numbers, Important

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