Fundamentals Quotes - Page 9

• If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.

  Michel Foucault

  Men, Sea, Would Be

  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences ch. 10 (1966)

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• The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

  Gilles Deleuze

  Thinking, Encounters, World

  Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.176, A&C Black

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• Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation that’s on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that - that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth.

  Michele Bachmann

  Ocean, Animal, Air

  "Rep. Michele Bachmann says CO2 is 'a natural byproduct of nature' by Kate Sheppard, grist.org. April 28, 2009.

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• We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.

  Thom Yorke

  Issues, Bullshit, Listening

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• I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

  Piet Mondrian

  Wish, Quality, Abstract

  Piet Mondrian (1971). “Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: Centennial Exhibition: Held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York”

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• A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Struggle, World, Deals

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• Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

  Leon Krier

  Limited Resources, Problem, Existence

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.136, Island Press

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• I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.

  George Soros

  Reality, Expression, Investing

  George Soros (2009). “The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

  Elena Kagan

  Rights, Law, Democracy

  Speech on Being Nominated to Serve as U.S. Supreme Court Justice, delivered 10 May 2010

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• If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

  Luis Bunuel

  Destiny, Curiosity, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fundamental keys to the culture of any organization can only be achieved when everyone is on the same page.

  Tony Dungy

  Keys, Organization, Culture

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.146, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

  Rand Paul

  Unions, Reason Why, Why Me

  "Kentucky Tonight", KET, June 16, 1998.

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• Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

  Patty Murray

  Believe, Long, Goal

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• Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.

  Kaye Ballard

  Advancement, Philanthropy, Philanthropic

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• You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

  Bernard Madoff

  Running, Money, Greed

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• The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, Violence, Attention

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us.

  Maurice Samuel

  Two, Differences, Years

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• When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

  Carl Sagan

  Block, Molecules, Different

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.76, Penguin

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• Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

  Erich Fromm

  Freedom, Growth, Conditions

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.290, Open Road Media

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• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Cancer, Fighting, Animal

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• Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

  Marc Andreessen

  Health, Views, Care

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• We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Money, Blessing

  Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 27, 1964.

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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Reality, Two

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

  Peter Senge

  Teamwork, Educational, Organization

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• The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke.

  Colin Falconer

  Sports, Golf, Frustration

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