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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better. -- John Maynard Keynes
The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair! -- David Berg
I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below. -- Donald Trump
The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste. -- Tristram Stuart
I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort of flipside to that. 'Reckoner' is my favorite, just my favorite Radiohead song. That, 'Idioteque,' and 'Pyramid Song' are my top three. -- Phoebe Tonkin
As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence. -- Francis Bacon
I'm just worried that the technology I invented in that story ["The Pyramid and the Ass" ] will become real, and George W. Bush will be able to clone into a new body and be "re-elected" due to a clone-bill passed by him and his cronies. God forbid! -- Alexander Weinstein
The top of the Great Pyramid [.....] there's no capstone on the pyramid. Till the year 2000 celebrations when George Bush [Snr.] and some of these guys put a phony one up there. See, they think they are going to have a new world order, and they probably are. -- Kent Hovind
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme. -- Bernard Katz
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. -- Mitch Hedberg
To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist. -- Sarah Parcak
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid. -- Rodney Dangerfield
The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. -- Tom Vilsack
I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever. -- Mohamed Al-Fayed
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet. -- Zahi Hawass
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery. -- Zahi Hawass
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. -- Pierre Loti
According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals. -- Tristram Stuart
I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time. -- Daniel Webster
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. -- Adam Sedgwick
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. -- Nick Cave
Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out. -- Gina Carano
It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid. -- Bill Ackman
There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working. -- Joe Heck
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders. -- Wadah Khanfar
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. -- Margaret Atwood
Traditional models of work only let us cross out the needs on the very bottom of the pyramid - basic sustenance. On the flipside, independent employment within the network of the new sharing economy addresses our needs for a sense of community and belonging, autonomy and respect, creativity and problem solving. -- Leah Busque
I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out. -- Jean-Luc Bilodeau
If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth. -- Daniel Webster
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid? -- Tom Stoppard
The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid. -- Martin Buber
We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. -- J. K. Rowling
Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes. -- Caldwell Esselstyn
The military is a meritocracy. It's an up or out. It's shaped like a pyramid. -- Tanya Biank
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...? -- Tom Stoppard
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. -- James Hunter
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. -- Tracy Kidder
...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza. -- Michael Tsarion
What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient. -- Ron Rosedale
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. -- Robert Blair
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder. -- Vera Nazarian
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer. -- Dan Brown
When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top. -- Donald Trump
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid. -- Ice Cube
Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below. -- Gerald R. Stanek
I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes. -- Rachel
I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid. -- Rick Riordan
I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands. -- Jennifer Rardin
I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be. -- Rose McGowan
Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made. -- Dan Brown
01210 is a pyramid, & worms move like handicapped snakes. My dream belongs in a wheelchair, because I just spilled coffee all over my sleep. -- Jarod Kintz
The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top. -- Karl Pilkington
Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued. -- Robert Spector
The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny. -- Karl Pilkington
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals... -- Ben Stein
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other. -- Bryant McGill
You are the culmination of all that ever was. You are the highest point of the vast pyramid of history and of your own life. -- Bryant McGill
Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid. -- Alice Dunbar Nelson
Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid. -- John Taylor Gatto
Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe. -- Joy Adamson
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid. -- William F. Longgood
The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God. -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters. -- Paul Reiser
Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven. -- Wassily Kandinsky
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. -- George Bernard Shaw
I like generals. I think generals are terrific. You know, they go through schools and sort of end up at the top of the pyramid. And it's like a test. -- Donald Trump
This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man. -- Ramon Magsaysay
According to the food waste pyramid, ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals. -- Tristram Stuart
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. -- Manitonquat
They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest. -- Garry Winogrand
He looked at her with his green don't-lie-to-me-woman eyes and Scarlet dropped her guilty gaze to the mahogany desktop, searching around until she found a paperweight shaped like a pyramid to stare at. -- Chelsea Fine
One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did. -- Kay Ryan
I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals. -- Jonathan Balcombe
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language. -- Lydia Davis
I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid. -- Ice Cube
Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship... -- Dan Smoot

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