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- Nov 07, 2020
Erect Quotes
Standing tall, and building something new.
These erect quotes use the word in its classic sense of standing upright or building something new - a republic standing erect while empires around it fall, or research stations erected for scientific study.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
- Big Cities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boys have always known they could do anything; all they had to do was look around at their presidents, religious leaders, professional athletes, at the statues that stand erect in big cities and small. Girls have always known they were allowed to feel anything - except anger.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
- Heights
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- Nov 07, 2020
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
- Corrupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power tends to corrupt - so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020