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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Building Entirety Fire Life Living More Name Patterns Place Quality Room Town Which Without

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As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: About Been Bit Building Eight Financial Forbes Gold Know Little Little Bit Rate Soak Stuff Up Working World Years You

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I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

~Christopher Egan

Topics: Actor Building Different Doing Experience Filmmakers Great Great People Just Keep Other People Things Want Working

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I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.

~Christopher Meloni

Topics: Build Building Contractor Day Dream Him Hire House Just Love Me One Day Still Truly Would

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Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.

~Chuck Norris

Topics: America Because Brought Building Certain Degrees Forefathers Increased Melting Melting Pot Often Our People Pot Productivity Securities Them

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My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

~Cicely Tyson

Topics: Building Character Gratification Preparation Working

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A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Blueprint Bridge Building Career Each Film Know Life Lifts Like Me My Life Plan Put Something Where You

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If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Alive Behind Building Hospital Human Leave Leaves Library Like Meant Particular Planet Rich Sense Someone Tells Time Us Visceral Wing Writing You

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Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Adding Better Building Colleges Compete Enhancing Facilities Institutions Making Nicer Professors Programmes Would

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The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: About Building Early Easier Efforts First Friendship Good Gospel Interested Inviting Learn Learned Lessons Made Member Missionaries Much Our People Predict Prerequisite Sharing Simply Two Which Who Will

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