And then, be confronted with someone who would tear it down by false testimony, by lies under oath.
Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?
"I believe they bought this building to tear it down, " Mr. Williams said.
Whether your preferred variety of exceptionalism is religious, ethnic, or species-based, the Martians are here to tear it down.
Build it up, cheer its success, profit from the stock rise and then tear it down for the very things that helped build it up.
You have to tear it down and start over again.
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The man who could use a fresh wad of donations from Wall Street as 2012 approaches is not going to align himself with those who would tear it down.
Cultural tension boiled over when Herod planted Rome's golden eagle atop the Temple's entrance, an abomination to Judaism that made people tear it down only to be caught and burned alive.
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MoMA says it expects to tear down the folk-art building by the end of the year.
But by all means, if it makes people feel better, tear the statue down.
If the protein could tear off cholesterol plaque in patients who were already sick, it might cut down on heart attacks.
The liberal project, to me, is a project to tear down the false humanity of oppression and prejudice and try to replace it with a deeper humanity.
And concede that sometimes it takes both overwhelming force -- and a touch of diplomacy -- to tear down a wall.
Without that tear, without the bird that tears off Ahab's hat, would it mean as much when Ahab goes down with his ship?
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