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There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education is all a matter of building bridges. -- Ralph Ellison
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges. -- Vicente Fox
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. -- Eugene Chadbourne
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. -- George C. Wallace
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of. -- Sebastian Coe
Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions. -- Oscar Arias
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.' -- Jay Carney
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. -- Barack Obama
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. -- T. D. Jakes
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. -- Ernie Pyle
A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life. -- Claire Denis
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight. -- Janine Benyus
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America. -- Bev Perdue
The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in. -- Alan Davies
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. -- Cory Booker
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references. -- Ueli Gegenschatz
We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. -- Joichi Ito
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut. -- Adam Davidson
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. -- Warren Rudman
The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end. -- Jeff Mangum
I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge. -- Richard M. Nixon
It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start. -- Robert Benchley
Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us. -- David Walker
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you. -- Jason Schwartzman
With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives. -- Widad Akrawi
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built. -- Frantz Fanon
I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge. -- Stephen King
If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm. -- Kevin Cashman

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