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“Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“All experience is an arch, to build upon.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.” Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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