Built Quotes
2368 quotes by 1884 authors
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Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the…
— Stuart Chase
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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all…
— Max Nordau
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I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and…
— John C. Lilly
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There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
— Gustav Stickley
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There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of…
— Gustav Stickley
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Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.
— Grace Slick
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall…
— Ray Bradbury
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The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they…
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.
— Robin Sharma
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In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was…
— Mikhail Lomonosov
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The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a…
— Roger Scruton
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Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching out for you.…
— Harlow Curtice
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Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful…
— Lewis Mumford
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It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short…
— John Phillips
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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I,…
— Marge Piercy
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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what…
— David Brin
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Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people…
— Mark Steyn
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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
— A.S. King
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