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  • We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
  • And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
  • If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?
  • As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
  • All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
  • Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
  • It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
  • No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
  • There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
  • Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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  • Henry Ford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • John A. Shedd A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
    John A. Shedd
    American author and professor
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Kate Millet Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Betty Ford When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Caroll Spinney When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Bronson Pinchot 'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • Bill Dedman A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Peter Marshall A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
    Peter Marshall
    Scots-American preacher (1902 - 1949)
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  • Lao-Tzu A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Bjarke Ingels All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert All lasting business is built on friendship.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Richard C. Cushing Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
    Richard C. Cushing
     
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  • Simon Hoggart America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
    Simon Hoggart
     
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  • Berkeley Breathed And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Stephen Vizinczey As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Campbell Brown As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Adolf Loos At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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