Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs."
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Pyramids
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Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid."
Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs"
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet, Novelist
"She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows."
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"Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids."
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"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something."
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"The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach."
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"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved."
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"Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills."
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"It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free."
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"All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed."
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"Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid."
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"Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, [This] was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many people as possible."
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"Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)"
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"Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood."
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"Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. Now, all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaoh's graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big, when you stop and think about it - and I don't think it would just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain."
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"Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made."
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"You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world."
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"If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more."
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"Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies."
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"The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid."
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"Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme."
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"The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."
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"The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids."
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