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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges. -- Vicente Fox
We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people. -- Vicente Fox
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. -- Richard Stallman
None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls. -- James G. Stavridis
Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges. -- James G. Stavridis
The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in. -- Kevin Spacey
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far. -- Jon Meacham
We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation. -- Joel Osteen
In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls. -- James G. Stavridis
Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created. -- Carly Fiorina
We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls. -- Ted Cruz
We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars. -- Widad Akrawi
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
I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions. -- Joe Biden
Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though -- Arlo Guthrie
In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen? -- Jose Andres Puerta
I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace. -- Corbin Bernsen
Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings. -- Brad Holland
I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that. -- Foxy Brown
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. -- Aristophanes
I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! -- Al Lewis
Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light. -- Vitruvius
It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. -- Helge Ingstad
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though. -- Arlo Guthrie
There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming. -- Beatrice Dalle
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. -- Peter Zumthor
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world. -- Richard Rogers
My hope is Donald Trump will focus on building bridges instead of walls. -- Julian Castro
Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. -- Mason Cooley
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in. -- Laozi
For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls. -- Simon Van Booy
The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work. -- John Irving

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