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“You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.”

Ifs Knows Looks Made Remember Gone Building Tvs Built Bills China Screens Checks Bridges Flats Infrastructure Stimulus 1930s Made In China

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.”

Lasts Nations Growth Economy Generations Building Built Investment Bridges Fuel Ancestor Historic Infrastructure Port Railroads Dams Hoover Dredging Hoover Dam

Author:Cory Booker

“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”

Men Life Might Artist Records Building Source Higher Built Streams Architect Organic Architecture

Book:The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

Source: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

“When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.”

Years Firsts Kind Next Language Principles Building Built University California Grass Programming Trails Next Year Sidewalk Computer Language Perl

Author:Larry Wall

“Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?”

Humor Funny Building Built Finished

Author:Steven Wright

“I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.”

Way Want Home Building Built Down And Expensive Buying Architect Hobbies Buying A Home

Author:Sandra Bullock

“Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.”

Made Cities Half Objects Building Built Bunch Admiration Architect Iconic Monarchs Barcelona

Author:Julie Burchill

“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”

Ifs World Whole Nature Change Animal Sacrifice Building Built Bridges Novelists Changing The World New World Building Bridges

Author:Ismail Kadaré

“Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.”

Want Wells Matter Dies Building Consequence Built Mere Obligation What Matters Undoing

Author:Muriel Barbery

“This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.”

Has Beens Soul States Might Left Plans Building Built Workers Architect Perplexity Wreckage Infinitive

Book:Dead Souls: A Novel

Source: Dead Souls: A Novel

“Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.”

Men Needs Humans Important Eye House Secret Building Equal Built Sacred Valuable Spots Bridges Urges Belonging Crossings Human Needs Shrines Being Equal

Author:Ivo Andric

“Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.”

Ifs Mean Humor Support Building Ought Built Foundation Familiar Visible Freak Arrested

Book:Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

“A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.”

“If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.”

Ifs Doe Culture Justice Awareness Building Ought Diversity Built Social Justice Bridges

Book:The Damned

Source: The Damned

“They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.”

Thinking Justice Building Diversity Built Social Justice Sweat Deep Thought Pyramids Wise Women Beads Pharaohs

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.”

Should Space Technology Building Built Should Have Insane Stations Dozen

Author:Larry Niven

“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.”

Inspirational Beautiful Hurt Environment Society Building Built Environmental Landscape Architect

Book:Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City

Source: Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City

“There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.”

“When Maryam Babangida and Mariam Abacha built the Women Centre and the National Hospital they did not carry the buildings when they left government. I will not go with the peace mission building. Women should resist being used to kick against the project. If the project was for men the budget for the project would have long been passed.”

Ifs Men Should Long Government Used Left Building Projects Built Luck Missions Budgets Kicks Hospitals Centre Good Luck

Author:Patience Jonathan

“We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.”

Culture President Decision Stage Building Built Remains Committed Disappointed Euthanasia

Author:Scott McClellan

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