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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. - Augustus

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Augustus

Rome, Marble, Found

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind. B. R. Ambedkar

Mind, Like, Which

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture, Begins

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Grow, Very, Grows

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay

Slaves, Very, Other

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Place, Begins, Carefully

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse. Andrea Bocelli

Career, Like, Made

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. Eminem

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. Benjamin Britten

Color, Notes, Foggy

My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing. Katherine Dunn

Like, Idea, Nothing

There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks. Nathan Sawaya

Practice, Something Else

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform. Rory MacLean

Some, Which, Mortar

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. Edmund Wilson

Solid, Built, Laid

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch

Chance, Ever, Fortune

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. Lydia M. Child

Success, Important, Most

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. Alan Moore

Think, I Think, Separate

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. Pau Gasol

Death, Through, Catching

With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube. Mitchel Resnick

YouTube, Interactive, Videos

Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Play, Own, Available

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. William Blake

Law, Prisons, Built

If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can't you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice? Bill Flores

Veterans, Insurance, Mortar

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Early Days, Mortar, Tested

You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks. John Doar

Win, Going, Bottles

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey

Nature, Flowers, Preferences

Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have. Ginni Rometty

Learning, Analytical, Put

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