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• When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and cultural traditions still respected today. With some reservation, this can be said about Pakistan, too, where we can observe dynamic political processes going on [and] governments change as a result of elections. In my opinion, it is up to the ruling elite to initiate cardinal changes.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Religious, Islamic

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

  "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Order, Soul

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• Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.

  Frank Thiess

  Dancing, Dancer, Movement

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• When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Hard Work, People

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• To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!

  Martin Zweig

  Fighting, Decision, Finals

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• The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Virtue, Restraint

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

  Dorothy Day

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

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• It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

  Harold Town

  Mother, Ties, Ironic

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• I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.

  Nat Hentoff

  Thinking, Doe, Call Me

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sunday, Order, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sunday, Cities, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

  Chris Matthews

  Decision, Clinton, Spats

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Father, Fighting

  Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.

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• So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

  William Mathews

  Stars, Destiny, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.23, Belford Bros.

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• Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

  James Hillman

  Attention, Firsts, Virtue

  James Hillman, Thomas Moore (2013). “The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire”, p.85, Routledge

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• The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Zero, Needs, Use

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.43, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Influence, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.471, Harvard University Press

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• The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of salvation is nil. Unless Conscience and the Cardinal Virtues form the food that people live on, just take my word for it, they're utterly lost - every single living soul among them!

  William Langland

  Wisdom, Teaching, Justice

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• Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass.

  Jacques Pepin

  Two, Kitchen, Ass

  Jacques Pepin (2004). “The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

  Martin Nolan

  New York, Sunday, Media

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• National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

  John Adams

  Party, Differences, Voting

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• Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Views, Understanding, Pieces

  Eric Temple Bell (1946). “The Search for Truth”

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• Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

  Georg Cantor

  Numbers, Consistent, Definite

  "From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931". Book by Jean van Heijenoort, 1967.

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• Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Technology, Differences

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