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When we put together a brick of Lego, it's very strong but very easily manipulated.
Shoots seem tiny, but to reach the sun they can break through brick walls.
See the brick walls as all the problems that we've inflicted on this planet.
It's like trying to run into a brick wall.
The other one is from the previous brick that was placed.
And as my parents did, begin the urgent task of rebuilding Africa, brick by brick.
In multiple places, brick and concrete walls separate city and suburbs, white and black, running directly across municipal streets and through neighborhoods.
They enabled us to to build things that were larger than us, buildings, bridges, one brick at a time.
Like the concrete block, the transistor allows you to build much larger, more complex circuits, one brick at a time.
We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick.
You can see my wife struggling to stack a brick of postcards on a pyramid of over a half-million secrets.
In your kitchen, the floor has been paved over with a yellow brick road, and out of your oven are coming towards you Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Lion from "The Wizard of Oz," hand-in-hand, skipping straight towards you.
Each a piece of memorable art, each a brick in the wall of who we are.
In India and Nepal, I was introduced to the brick kilns.
Well, we also learned that Vasari, who was commissioned to remodel the Hall of the 500 between 1560 and 1574 by the Grand Duke Cosimo I of the Medici family, we have at least two instances when he saved masterpieces specifically by placing a brick wall in front of it and leaving a small air gap.
I pulled into the town of Abu Ghosh, and bought a brick of Turkish delight: pistachios glued in rosewater.
But do remember when you were a kid, and you kind of sifted through the pile in your basement, and you found that big 24-dot brick of Lego, and you were kind of like, "Cool, this is awesome.
It's remarkable to see the design decisions that they're making, like when everything is made out of red bricks, some residents will cover that red brick with another layer of red brick-patterned wallpaper just to make it a kind of clean finish.
It's not made of brick.
DU: So the last day of filming, we ended up in Vila Cruzeiro, and we were sitting down and we had a drink, and we were overlooking this hill with all these houses, and most of these houses looked unfinished, and they had walls of bare brick, but we saw some of these houses which were plastered and painted, and suddenly we had this idea: what would it look like if all these houses would be plastered and painted?
But more importantly, I could also show you what it looks like at the corner of one of those magnificent buildings with all the massive stone blocks, or the fake stone blocks done with brick and stucco, which is more often the case.
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires.
This is the Livingston Public Library that was completed in 2004 in my hometown, and, you know, it's got a dome and it's got this round thing and columns, red brick, and you can kind of guess what Livingston is trying to say with this building: children, property values and history.
Yeah, he'd leave me notes tucked into the holes in the brick at the back of the charity shop so we could meet.
It's a brick box.
I measured the height of a brick.
Thanks to Constantinople's walls, that pile of brick and marble that guarded them for so long, we still have our classical past.
The common and reasonable expectation of more mature men and women is that they don't like or know technology, that they have a hard time turning on a computer, or that they have the old brick cell phones from the 1980s.
And without regular reinforcement, the wall fell into disrepair, rammed earth eroded, while brick and stone were plundered for building materials.
And we hardly realize the human price we pay when we fail to question one brick, because we fear it might shake our whole foundation.
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