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“W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'”

“We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!”

Running Political Turns Leader Cases Building Program Tasks Independent Turn-on Dimes Amnesia

Author:Richard Trumka

“A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.”

Real Turns Building Details Architecture Statements Architect Storyteller Landmarks

Author:Curtis W. Fentress

“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.”

“The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.”

Character Values Turns Wealth Poor Economy Building Wealthy Character Building

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.”

“I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft”

People Thinking Turns Building Boat Crafts Rockers

Author:Tony Benn

“All of our presidents come into office looking so vigorous ... They grow grayer and grayer, and by the time they leave, they’re as white as the building they live in ... I have one big advantage: I’ve been coloring my hair for years. So you’re not going to see me turn white in the White House.”

Years Bigs Turns House Grows President White Building Hair Office Advantage White House Vigorous

Author:Hillary Clinton

“For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.”

Years Stories Turns Our Lives Building Stones Bounds Layers

Book:The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10

Source: The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10

“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.”

Thinking Should Trying Jobs Turns Nations Enemy Military Building Citizens Murder Down And Democratic Iraq Engaged Hunts Isis Utopia American Citizens Jihad Switzerland Nation Building

Author:Ted Cruz

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli