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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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This monument is going to be built as a symbol. ↗

— Bill Russell

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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years. ↗

— George Saunders

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We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

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