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“Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation”
Daniel Defoe
“Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.”
Louis Binstock
“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.”
Donald Trump
“No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.”
Elsie de Wolfe
“Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap”
Cloris Leachman
“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”
Walter Gropius
“I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.”
Corazon Aquino
“It is easier to pull down than to build up”
Latin Proverb
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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