#build

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82) ↗

— Sarah Turnbull

#city #lime #loo #public #toilet

Peace and love to all. ↗

— Meagan Earls

#peace #peace-on-earth #peacebuilding #love

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#broken #build #children #easier #repair

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#courage

It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another a potential competitor for the limited rewards of male success, and the hostility which arises between them is a part of the natural balance of human life. It is possible, as in the case of father and son, that a closeness will arise between two men which threatens the functional hostility of each. It is the duty of society to provide an artificial means of encouraging the proper degree of antagonism. ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#scifi #society-building #men

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. ↗

— Al Franken

#bush #foreign-policy #iraq #nation-building #politics

Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#build #coach #coaching #team #torture

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start. ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#down #find #get #going #gone

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#around #basic #breath #building #good

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. ↗

— John Abizaid

#build #civilian #control #done #got