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• If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.

  Shakti Gawain

  Trust, Taught, World

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• The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What is new is that Western science is slowly beginning to realize that some elements of that ancient lore might be correct.

  Dean Radin

  Philosophy, Ideas, Humanity

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Father, Blue, Montana

  "Ehrenreich, The Prey and the Predators". Tomdispatch Interview, www.tomdispatch.com. June 4, 2006.

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• Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

  Torsten Wiesel

  Passion, Knowing, Intuition

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• My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.

  Saul Bass

  Emotional, Stories, Way

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

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• I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Mean, Safe Haven

  "Obama outlines ISIS strategy: Airstrikes in Syria, more U.S. forces". Nationally televised address, edition.cnn.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.

  Mort Kondracke

  Cells, Two, Adults

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• Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

  Paul Rice

  Self, Years, Entrepreneur

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• Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.

  Ken Mehlman

  Gay, Rights, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

  John Fund

  War, Slavery, Sin

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• The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be very careful to make sure that candidates for office are free to express their views so that people will make an informed choice. We don't want them holding back, and sort of concealing their views and then disclosing them afterwards.

  Alex Kozinski

  Views, People, Office

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Integrity, Heart

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• Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Ideas, Eugenics, Sound

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• The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Inspirational, Mother, Native American

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press

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• There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.180, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Since I was born I remember my dad and my mom always embracing diversity and differences among people and that being the core of America and happiness and all those different things. And that goes along with equality and you should treat everybody equal and be fair and not judge people and dislike people because they are different, and embrace and enjoy people because of the differences they have.

  Connor Barwin

  Mom, Dad, Gay

  "Houston Texan Connor Barwin on marriage equality, his gay brother and NFL culture". Interview with Jim Buzinski, www.outsports.com. June 11, 2012.

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• The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

  Frederick Chiluba

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Clothes, Stronger, Pilates

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Defense, Institutions

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• The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mean, Sacrifice, Men

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• Finding that core of truth within yourself... That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love... Is the greatest spiritual attainment you can ever make.

  David Wilcock

  Spiritual, Attitude, Love Is

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• You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Destiny, Civilization

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.564, Best Books on

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• The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

  Rumi

  Laughter, Rain, Unseen

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• Diet is a big thing. I am a firm believer in you are what you eat. I juice a lot, I try and stick to a Paleo Diet. At its core, I look at MS as inflammation, so I try and eliminate foods that cause inflammation: dairy, gluten, grains.

  Jack Osbourne

  Trying, Paleo Diet, Looks

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• Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in other words, its core. This core is of an entirely different nature from all the elements (physical sensations, feelings, thoughts and so on) that make up our personality. As a consequence, it can act as a unifying center, directing those element and bring them into the unity of an organic wholeness.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Self, Simplicity, Personality

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