"Nobody ever built a statue to a committee."
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"Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of."
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"I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent."
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"Rome wasn't built in a day."
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"In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement."
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"Homes that are built on anything other than love are bound to crumble."
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"What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up."
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"Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time."
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"I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built."
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"Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built."
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"Laziness is built deep into our nature."
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"All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it."
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"The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built."
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"Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act."
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"We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell."
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"I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word."
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"That which builds is better than that which is built."
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"We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society."
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"There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself."
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"Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s."
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