Quotes with edifice

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• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

  André Maurois
  French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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• Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  Abdoulaye Wade
  Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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• I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

  C. V. Raman
  Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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• The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

  Charles III
  King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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• There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

  Angela Davis
  American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• constitution
• fundamental
• lighthouse
• perfection
• politeness
• ungraceful

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