Foundation Quotes - Page 2

• We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

  Dorothy Day

  Ideas, Liturgy

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• Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

  E. M. Forster

  Civilization, Mind, Sound

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

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• Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

  Sue Kelly

  Retirement, Social, Millions

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• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  Ida B. Wells

  Government, Order, Law

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, Successful, Motherhood

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• I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Peace, Thinking, Confusion

  "Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler". Book by Tim Cole, p.35, 2000.

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• I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

  Eugenio Montale

  Believe, Struggle, Two

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• Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

  Esther Dyson

  Rights, Government, Liberty

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Education, Business

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• Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Sap, Literature

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.189

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Earthquakes

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• Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

  Christine Gregoire

  Welfare Reform, Discouraging, Our Future

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• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  Isaac Asimov

  Pay, Reputation, Obvious

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

  Tom Allen

  Independence, Energy, Global Warming

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• To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stupid, Whole, Seems

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.

  Picabo Street

  Team, Kids, Skis

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• To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Future, Apology, Literature

  Ambrose Bierce (1911). “The collected works”

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• When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

  Dennis Banks

  Spiritual, Looks, Poverty

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Fake People, Humility

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• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

  Mary Astell

  Ignorance, Vices, Imitation

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.67, Broadview Press

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• Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Unshakable

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.174, Anamchara Books

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Friendship, Sake, Ifs

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