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Education is all a matter of building bridges. -- Ralph Ellison
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges. -- Vicente Fox
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
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
I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge. -- Richard M. Nixon
Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union. -- Peter Seymour
Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges. -- Doris "Granny D" Haddock
... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context -- John Stott
That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing. -- Karen Horney
When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties. -- Thomas Frank
Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories. -- Paulo Coelho
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. -- Peter T. King
I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing. -- Stan Lee
Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions. -- Oscar Arias
My hope is Donald Trump will focus on building bridges instead of walls. -- Julian Castro
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian. -- Pope Francis
Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful. -- Sylvia Poggioli
After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have. -- Keith Ellison
If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem. -- Van Jones
In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world. -- Ahmed Zewail
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. -- Peter T. King
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars. -- Widad Akrawi
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
Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing. -- Vladimir Putin
The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work. -- Paul Myers

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