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I just build and build more yall niggas build and destroy -- Drake
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. -- Margaret Thatcher
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. -- Winston Churchill
When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind. -- Anas Aremeyaw Anas
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. -- William J. H. Boetcker
I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy. -- Red Skelton
Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve -- Tariq Ramadan
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. -- Nelson Mandela
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. -- Barry Hannah
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. -- Brian Mulroney
This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em. -- Cassandra Rose Clarke
You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back. -- Alexandra Bracken
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. -- Hugo Chavez
Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer. -- Thomas J. Watson
We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself. -- Casey Affleck
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate. -- George Steiner
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. -- William Wells Brown
If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy. -- Kofi Annan
Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable. -- Chuck Palahniuk
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself. -- Greg van Eekhout
I could only destroy to build. -- Sergei Polunin
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. -- John Dryden
Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy. -- Seth Godin
Reputation, you know "? a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy. -- Robert De Niro
It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. -- Haruki Murakami
Energy is precious, use your energy to build not to destroy -- Constance Chuks Friday
We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy. -- Bernard Cornwell
We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us. -- Nick Vujicic
In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy. -- Morton Blackwell
If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create. -- Lionel Suggs
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. -- Farah Diba
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. -- Arthur Erickson
My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy. -- Gerald R. Ford
For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build. -- Andrew Griffin
To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy. -- Anwar Sadat
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. -- Clifford Stoll
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. -- John Corigliano
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. -- Barry Hannah
Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. -- Ai Weiwei
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. -- Maya Angelou
We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires. -- Barry White
This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build. -- George Packer
A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build. -- Leon Brown
Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build. -- Auliq Ice
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world. -- Sri Chinmoy

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