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We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.

— Haile Selassie

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.

— Jack Scalia

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

— Sai Baba

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

— David Allan Coe

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

— Steve Tisch

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

— Marilyn Monroe

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

— Thomas a Kempis

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

— Origen

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

— Arthur Henderson

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