"George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk."
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"February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]"
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"There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress."
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"I want to be the bridge to the next generation."
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"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition."
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"Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness"
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"Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them."
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"Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal."
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"I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible."
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"Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better."
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"Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one."
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"If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety."
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"A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many."
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"The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction."
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"Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel."
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"Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines."
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"Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
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"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under."
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"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business - you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."
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"I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain."
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