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"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began."
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"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."

"Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself."

"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."

"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."

"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."

"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."

"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."

"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."

"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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