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• Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

  James Dobson

  Children, Father, Home

  James C. Dobson (1991). “How to Raise Children That Love the Lord”, Chariot Family Pub

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• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Progress

  Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.355

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• Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

  H. L. Mencken

  Independence, Economic, Damn

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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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• When people say that meditation makes them calm, they are often referring to this stability of the mind. A stable mind creates the foundation for a happier and more contented person.

  Sakyong Mipham

  People, Meditation, Mind

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.65, Harmony

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• What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go. The whole foundation is already here in each one of us. It is the same in all of us. There is only one foundation, which is presence, wholeness, boundless love.

  Toni Packer

  Love, Places To Go, Boundless

  Toni Packer (2002). “The Wonder of Presence: And the Way of Meditative Inquiry”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Attitude, Yoga, Knowing

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• The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.

  Tab Hunter

  People, Training, Important

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• You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

  Martin Yan

  Strong, Soup, Taste

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• You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

  Alan Autry

  Cities, Community, Needs

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

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• If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Believe, Belief, Building

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• The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

  Lee Iacocca

  Change, Positive, Uplifting

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• A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

  Armstrong Williams

  Umpires, Decision, Helping

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• The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

  George Santayana

  Commitment, Needs, Edifice

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.20, MIT Press

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• With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

  Bruce Conner

  Art, Couple, Film

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  Otto Rank

  Future, Creativity, Civilization

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• The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Purpose, World

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.204, Discovery House

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• An important purpose for mortality is to help us learn to recognize and to choose the positive even though the negative more fully surrounds us. We make this choice consciously or unconsciously in every moment of the day, and these millions of tiny choices create the foundation of our identity. We are what we think. We are what we say, what we do, what we fill our lives with. Ultimately, every being creates himself by these countless, crucial choices.

  Betty Eadie

  Thinking, Choices, Identity

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• The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

  Thomas Keller

  Book, Inspiration, Fundamentals

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• Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Success, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

  Robert E. Lee

  Wedding, Character, Civil War

  "General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox" by Franklin Lafayette Riley, (p. 18), 1922.

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• Good order is the foundation of all things.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Organize, All Things

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

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• No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Achievement, New Work, Built

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• Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

  Claude McKay

  Reality, Air, Political

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