Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
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Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.
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If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
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Hey there Lord it's me... You say we must pay dues But still I am confused I need to walk And with you talk Instead of to statues... Surely you must care Or are you only air Built in our minds We're in binds Never really there
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Home wasn't built in a day.
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Reputation is made in a moment: character is built in a lifetime.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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