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“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one”
Sam Rayburn
“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong”
Calvin Coolidge
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
Walt Disney
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
Louis Kahn
“So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'”
Tommy Cooper
“Even a little dog can piss on a big building.”
Jim Hightower
“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
A. E. Housman
“The room within is the great fact about the building.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.”
Henrik Ibsen
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.”
Clarence Day
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