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• God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
  and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
  like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
  and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
  or a pile of rubble.

  Lucia Perillo

  Italian, Rocks, Names

  Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we’ve lost our way.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Distance, Fall, Men

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• Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  House Of Cards, Interesting, Leaving

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

  Tom Stoppard

  Running, Writing, Glasses

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• Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Mountain Ranges, Kneeling

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.13, RH Childrens Books

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• The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.

  Ben Nelson

  Hero, Names, Community

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• The impact of the earthquake on mental health was huge and unimaginably deep in people's lives. Some lost all benchmarks and references because of their great loss, we still have people coming to clinics with mental health problems related to the earthquake. They talk about the earthquake, about being under the rubble.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Loss, Impact

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• I know generals who disagree with [Barack] Obama, but I don't think these people are idiots or been reduced to rubble.

  Eric Bolling

  Thinking, People, Idiot

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Crazy, Drama, Would Be

  Source: in.ign.com

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• We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Moving, Animal, Compassion

  "9 Reasons A Cat Should Be President" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2012.

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• a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Book, People, Literature

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the reticulatum looks better, but its construction makes it likely to crack. On the other hand, in the opus incertum, the rubble lying in courses and imbricated, makes a wall which though not beautiful, is stronger.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Beautiful, Wall, Lying

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VIII: "Methods of Building Walls", Sec. 1,

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• Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Forever, Use

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter V, Section 8,

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• For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.

  Barbara Holland

  Art, Confused, Years

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?

  Shana Alexander

  Rome, Blood, Civilization

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• [After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!

  Lotte Lenya

  Dream, Determination, War

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• Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

  Malcolm X

  Fall, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Soldier, Pentagon

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• Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Sea, Rivers, Common Sense

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 8,

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• I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where it's embarrassing for America.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, America, Embarrassing

  "Clinton to Speak to Media Soon; Obama Says Trump Not Qualified to be President; Trump Praises Putin Leadership; Clinton, Trump Tackle National Security at Forum; Johnson: What is Aleppo?; Trump Defends Tweet on Military Sexual Assault". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Lying, Broken, Different

  Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.

  William Goldman

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.258, A&C Black

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• What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

  George Clooney

  Cowboy, Thinking, America

  "Pretty boys can think" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.

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