"When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it."
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"Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body."
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"Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached."
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"Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models."
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"When does a building actually become a built?"
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"Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers."
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"Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth."
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"Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building."
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"All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head."
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"A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start."
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"No tribute is laid on castles in the air."
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"All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong."
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"Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work."
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"The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city."
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"Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify."
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"Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built."
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"Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments."
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"The room within is the great fact about the building."
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"A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house"
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"By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things."
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