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Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool...

Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, use

Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set him...

Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

Quote by John Calvin about opinion, fire, fire brigade, day, man, life

Build your world around me, and promise to never let me...

Build your world around me, and promise to never let me go, and if ever their comes a time it may seem crowded, may we expand so love may grow.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about love, promise, world, time

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Quote by Francis Bacon about example, moral, good, good luck, advice, bad luck, bad

I loved to build with the Erector set, I loved to build...

I loved to build with the Erector set, I loved to build toys and models out of wood, I loved to draw mechanical devices, even those I could not build.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about love

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Quote by Simon Wiesenthal about history, criminals, man

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about life, virtue, order, nothing, good, good luck

Politicians are the same everywhere. They promise to...

Politicians are the same everywhere. They promise to build bridges even where are no rivers.

Quote by Nikita Khrushchev about politics, promise

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing.

Quote by Willie Aames about patience, god, children, heart, things

The folk-origin of ballads and the multiple authorship of epics are heresies worse than the futilities of the Baconians; at any rate, they are based on the same resolute omission, and build on it a wilder fantasy.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about origin

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity...

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

Quote by John Abizaid about security, americans, time

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

Quote by John Abizaid about security, concentration, force

I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis...

I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.

Quote by John Abizaid about fall

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Quote by John Abizaid about mentality, things, people

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Quote by Ansel Adams about originality, force, police, creation, fight, human imperfections, spirit, man

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about experience

The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.

Quote by Russell Baker about americans

The IRA is being used as the excuse by them all not to...

The IRA is being used as the excuse by them all not to engage properly in the process of building peace with justice in Ireland.

Quote by Gerry Adams about rightness, justice, peace, being

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

Quote by Gerry Adams about purpose

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that...

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

Quote by James Lane Allen about vision, ideal, heart, mind, life

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