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«Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.»
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Educator)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
building, drive, drives, irrepressible, market, marketed, teachers, work of art
«There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.»
«The life of a religious might be compared to the building of a cathedral once a firm foundation has been laid, the building rises slowly.»
Author: Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine
| About:
Life,
Religion
| Keywords:
building, cathedral, compared, firm, foundation, laid, rises, slowly, The Building, The Cathedral
«The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.»
Author: Robert A. M. Stern
| Keywords:
architect, be intimate, building, client, conversation, dialogue, dialogues, intimate, intimates, intimate with, intimating, The Client
«Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
block, building, building block, claim, dispute, hydrogen, plentiful, scientists
«Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.»
«Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
altruistically, basic, block, blocking, block out, building, building block, but then, good manners, manners, mildly, moralist, mutual, of course, shocking
«The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building / steadily building.»
Author: Robert Collier
| Keywords:
adding, ahead, altering, a bit, bit, building, details, filling, imaginations, materialize, materialized, materializes, materializing, mental, mental picture, picture, steadily, The Go, the least bit, Think Ahead
«The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or You can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You can mix nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite. You can blow up bridges. You can mix nitroglycerin with more nitric acid and parafin and make gelatin explosives. You can blow up a building, easy. With enough soap, you can blow up the whole world.»
«Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.»
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