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• Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Progress, United States, Economic

  "Scientist Lewis M. Branscomb Gives $1 Million Gift to Found New Center for Science and Democracy at UCS". ucsusa.org/news, April 30, 2012.

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• Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Reality, World, Shifting

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

  Joan M. Drury

  Revolution, Matter, Courtesy

  Joan M. Drury (2000). “Those Jordan Girls”, Spinsters Ink Books

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• A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.

  Zell Miller

  Pride, Marine, Accomplishment

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• But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiqués straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion.

  Jon Krakauer

  Intimate Relationships, Promise, Intimate Relationship With God

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

  Cory Booker

  Strong, Class, Together

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Men, Young, Grievance

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• Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Organization, Rights, Views

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• The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Love Is, Fundamentals

  "Interview with Marianne Williamson About ‘A Course in Miracles’". Interview with Gabby Bernstein, gabbybernstein.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Made no mistake: America is a Christian nation. The bedrock of our theo-democracy is our Judeo-Christian values. that term, by the way, is a bit of a misnomer. It implies that Christianity and Judaism are equal.

  Stephen Colbert

  Christian, Mistake, America

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• On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

  Gary Bauer

  Christian, Religious, Issues

  Gary Bauer (1992). “Our Journey Home: What Parents Are Doing to Preserve Family Values”, W Publishing Group

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• Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

  August Wilson

  Attitude, Character, Play

  Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, believermag.com. November 1, 2004.

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• For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Land, Rivers

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Mean, Self

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.166, Holt Paperbacks

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• Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

  Adam Bellow

  Social, Existence, Nepotism

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• Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Honesty, Past, Four

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• Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.

  T. J. Clark

  Reality, Two, Wish

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• I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Believe, Different

  "The Fascinated God: What Science Says to Faith and Faith to Scientists". Book by Robert E. Zinser, 2003.

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• Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Selfishness, Conflict

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Years, Profound, Watches

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• If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

  Miranda Richardson

  Jobs, Stars, Feel Better

  "Classic interview: Miranda Richardson". Interview with James Saynor, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• When the winds blow and the rains pour, they blow and pour on all. Those who have built their foundations on bedrock rather than sand survive the storms. There is a way to build on bedrock by developing a deep personal conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ and knowing how to receive inspiration. . . . We need to learn how to recognize and apply these promptings.

  Allan F. Packer

  Jesus, Rain, Inspiration

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• To lead a child (or anyone else!), even inadvertently, away from faithfulness, away from loyalty and bedrock belief simply because we want to be clever or independent is license no parent nor any other person has ever been given.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Loyalty, Children, Clever

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• A country's middle class is its bedrock.

  Philip Kotler

  Country, Class, Middle

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

  Anna Quindlen

  Happiness, Granted

  "Anna Quindlen discusses 'A Short Guide To A Happy Life'". BookBrowse interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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