Pyramids Quotes - Page 8

• The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Poverty, World War 2

  Radio address, 7 Apr. 1932 See Sumner 3

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• The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Science, Curves, Wind

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• What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

  John Milton

  Stars, Memories, Son

  John Milton, “On Shakespear”

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• The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with Robert at the top and lots of us paying homage to him. I try to turn the pyramid upside down so that I'm at the bottom and bubbling away and encouraging people and energizing them so that they are all empowered so that they can do what they need to do, now that's the dream.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Leadership, Dream, Encouragement

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• It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Magic, Unhappy

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal - to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Dream, Writing

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• I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Army, Night

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

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• I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Jesus, Stars, Believe

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

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• I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.

  Rose McGowan

  Believe, Climbing, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jul 14, 2011

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• The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top.

  Karl Pilkington

  Four, Sides, Kind

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.107, Canongate Books

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• The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

  Jane Smiley

  Running, Spiritual, Fall

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.216, Pan Macmillan

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• White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

  Al Sharpton

  Philosophy, White, Astrology

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• The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

  Joe Heck

  Retirement, Thinking, Pyramid Schemes

  "Joe Heck: Social Security 'a pyramid scheme'". Interview with David Catanese, www.politico.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we've succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we've made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven't evolved at all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Fire, Wife

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• At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to "print" or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or "checkbook money."

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Air, Commercial Banks

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• Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Deeds, Stones, Forgotten

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• High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Animal, Eagles, Two

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• I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

  Kendrick Lamar

  Writing, Slave Ships, Building

  Song: HiiiiPoWeR, Album: Section 80

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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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