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"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
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"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."
Temptation
"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."
Religion
"At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done."
Religion
"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor."
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"Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong."
Mind
"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."
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"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame."
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"What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer."
Religion
"All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it."
Man
"How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves."
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"Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily."
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"When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking."
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"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."
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"Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz."
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"I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House."
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"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."
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"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."
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"I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living."
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"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
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"Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great."
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