"[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town."
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"Stop sketching. Start building."
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"Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard."
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"We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us."
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"Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself."
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"All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual."
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"I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building."
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"Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER."
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"It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it."
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"Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building."
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"Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one."
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"For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society."
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"My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?"
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"Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful."
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"I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?"
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"When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble."
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"Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about."
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"Every day we put another 110 million tons of global warming pollution into the sky as if it's an open sewer, and it's still building up. And the scientists tell us it's a race against time. We've stabilized emissions globally now for the last three years, but they need to start coming down quickly. We've got the momentum, we've got the wind in our sails, we're gonna win this."
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"The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science."
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"John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building."
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