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“Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.”

Jobs Growing Building Broken Taxes Immigration Bridges Outdated Tax System New Roads

Author:Barack Obama

“The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.”

World Whole Moments Facts Broken Connections Disappear Whole World Bridges Outside World

Author:Rajneesh

“We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?”

War Government Asks Too Much Broken Planning Heal Bridges Borders Schemes Mars Hurricanes Grandiose Basic Things Embarking Broken Marriage

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world.”

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”

Wells Two Play Feelings Heaven Roles Broken Findings Train Legs Woods Eight Shoulders Bridges Fifty Virgins Nerd Johnson Broken Leg

Author:Junot Diaz

“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

Facts Speak Differences Silence Break Broken Bridges

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

Years Watches Love You Broken Horror Track Driving Bridges Torn Seventies What You Love

Book:The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.”

Knows Way Hands Would Be Eye Dark Poor Sadness Serious Broken Higher Civilization Offers Mountain Ancient Insane Bridges Wheels Bombs Someday Delusion Cracks Stretching Dean Dense Hawks

Author:Jack Kerouac