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Re: If you build it, they will come.

Posted by TheFallen on March 26, 2003

In Reply to: Build it and they will come posted by andrew on March 26, 2003

: I would like to know the derivation of "build it and they will come"
: regards

I wouldn't stake my life on this being the origin of the phrase, but it's a central and much-repeated quote from the 1989 Kevin Costner movie "Field Of Dreams".