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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them. -- Chip Conley
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. -- Dave Barry
Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. -- Warren Farrell
Kosher salt, eggs and flour. These are the building blocks of everything. Kosher salt, above and beyond everything. -- Graham Elliot
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system. -- Tony Tan
A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A. -- Steve Aoki
It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business. -- Greg Brenneman
Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely simple building blocks. -- Gregory Petsko
Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life. -- Bob Ehrlich
Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes. -- Demetri Martin
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov. -- Rick Perlstein
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. -- Julian Assange
My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted. -- Nina Garcia
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. -- Zaha Hadid
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. -- Edward Witten
Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about. -- Flea
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. -- Kerry Stokes
There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time. -- Michael Emerson
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't clichÃ©, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human. -- Patrick Rothfuss
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together. -- Iain McGilchrist
From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career. -- Jim Webb
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it. -- Nicholas Kristof
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. -- James Howard Kunstler
Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do. -- John Henry Holland
Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living. -- Randy Alcorn
Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited -- PJ Ladd
Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future. -- Charles Capps
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. -- Ted Sundquist
Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas. -- Toba Beta
This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems. -- John Henry Holland
Genes and education are fundamental building blocks with witch man develops personality and lifestyle in one way or other... -- Monica Rus Carmen psychologyst
The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them. -- Theodore Zeldin
Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship. -- Mike Paul
I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life. -- Robert Muller
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time. -- Brian Greene
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society. -- Milton Friedman
Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you ... -- Edwin Lionel Flynn
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work. -- Dan Chaon
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks? -- Bertolt Brecht
Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day. -- Diane Dreher
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. -- Marvin Minsky
I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it. -- Al Franken
Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject. -- Peter Atkins
Our thoughts are not roadblocks to our meditation, they are the divine expression of the universe and the building blocks of infinite possibilities available to us in every moment. -- davidji
Books aren't just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am the sum of all I read. -- Jonathan Hull
For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like. -- Lee Iacocca

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