Foundation Quotes - Page 25

• Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

  Richard Stallman

  Learning, Awards, Giving

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• No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Inquiry, Journalist, Exes

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.182, Verso

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• Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

  Anil Sinha

  Struggle, Character, Adversity

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• A new politics can spark the clean-energy revolution that will serve as a foundation for a new era of human prosperity, protect the world's forests, stabilize the climate, and preserve the diversity of life on the planet.

  Eban Goodstein

  Diversity, Energy, Climate

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• Until you understand your Core Story, whatever it is, and how it made you who you are today, your foundation will reflect only your unconscious beliefs about yourself, real or imagined, positive or negative. When you delve into your subconscious beliefs about your lot in life, whether you believe you deserve to be happy or sad, successful or unsuccessful, only then do you have the chance to change the story that is replaying over and over in your head and determining how you go through life.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Real, Believe, Successful

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• I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.

  Zig Ziglar

  Believe, Character, Persistence

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• There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Perception Of Beauty, Judgement

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• The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Eight, Giving, Effort

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• As followers of Christ, we must remember always to build our defense of the Christian faith on the sure foundation of the Bible. If we do so, there will be no weight too great to be supported; no wind too strong to be resisted.

  Richard L. Pratt, Jr.

  Faith, Christian, Strong

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• . . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Friendship, Real, Character

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• A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

  Jim Bunning

  Strong, Children, Loving Life

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• America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

  John Quincy Adams

  Rights, Government, Voice

  John Quincy Adams (1821). “An Address, Delivered at the Request of the Committee of Arrangements for Celebrating the Anniversary of Independence: At the City of Washington on the Fourth of July 1821, Upon the Occasion of Reading the Declaration of Independence. ...”, p.31

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• If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Military, Liberty, Way

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• The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Israel, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.

  Charles A. Murray

  Europe, Other Cultures, Civilization

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• Find time for thought, this is the source of strength.
  Find time for the game, this is the secret of eternal youth.
  Find time for reading, this is the Foundation of knowledge.
  Find time to be friendly, this is the road to happiness.
  Find time for dreams, they will pull your vehicle as the stars.
  Find time to love and be loved in return, this is the privilege of the gods.
  Find time to look around you, it's too short a day to be selfish.
  Find time to laugh this is the music of the soul.

  Giannis Ritsos

  Dream, Stars, Selfish

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• Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.

  J. Christopher Stevens

  Real, Government, People

  "Bridges Not Barriers: Securing Futures and Improving Lives Through Expanded Foreign Aid" by Thomas H. Kean and Ray Chambers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace, and economic growth. Our friendship is based on historic moral and strategic ties, as well as our shared dedication to democracy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dedication, Israel, Ties

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Real, Waiting, My Best Friend

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• Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Two, Iraq

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Future, Vision

  "Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

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• Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

  Ernest Renan

  Jesus, Humanity, Enemy

  Ernest Renan (1864). “The Life of Jesus”, p.90

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• When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

  David Rudolf

  Reality, Justice, Judgement

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• Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

  George Washington

  Country, Moral, Purity

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.

  James Madison

  War, Army, Government

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