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Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Words build bridges into unexplored regions. -- Adolf Hitler
I like to build bridges... not walls. -- Oscar Arias Sanchez
Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines. -- Fred Thompson
Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians. -- Billy Graham
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must. -- Fred Thompson
You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness. -- Rick Warren
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. -- Richard M. Nixon
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant. -- Richard Attias
We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be. -- Luis Gutierrez
People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West. -- Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between. -- Ron White
Let's build bridges, not walls. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges. -- Isaac Newton
When you build bridges you can keep crossing them. -- Rick Pitino
Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them. -- Paulo Coelho
Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams. -- Robert Kiyosaki
With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges. -- James G. Stavridis
We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw -- Eboo Patel
Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness -- Barack Obama
Come, let us build bridges of love with each other with the cement of kindness and pillars of trust. -- Debasish Mridha
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant -- Richard Attias
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. -- KatÃ³ Lomb
The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across. -- Tom Clancy
I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families"?but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs. -- Neal Shusterman
Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts. -- Victoria Osteen
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. -- Dale Carnegie
Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom. -- Oprah Winfrey
We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing. -- Douglas Kennedy
We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September, -- Sharif El-Gamal
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission. -- Richard Attias
I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church. -- Rick Warren
The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy. -- Richard V. Allen
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself. -- Carl Rogers
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models. -- Steve Keen
After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians. -- A. R. Rahman
I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife and my step-son, or my daughter and my ex, I'm that guy in the middle, and I try to make sure we all stay together. -- Chad Coleman
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other. -- Maya Angelou
I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it. -- Andrew Sheng
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. -- Neil Postman
At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as a Christian leader I deeply respect your faith and believe that our common duty is to extend the hand of friendship, and to build bridges not walls. -- George Carey
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration. -- Gustave Eiffel
We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes? -- Andrew Sullivan
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan. -- Kató Lomb
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid. -- Manuel Moroun
If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it. -- Adam Carolla
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. -- Seth Godin
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. -- Henry David Thoreau
When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight. -- Dave Parnas
Should and would build no bridges. -Lini -- Robert Jordan
We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars. -- Widad Akrawi
I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge. -- Richard M. Nixon
I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay. -- Jason Reeves
Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions. -- Tim Brown
As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls. -- Sonia Sotomayor

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