Foundation Quotes - Page 33

• Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting.

  Ellen Terry

  Acting, Pace, Vary

  "The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections".

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• ... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Christian, Stress, Animal

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• The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes.

  Tom Segev

  Eye, Europe, Class

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• The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

  Simon Blackburn

  World, Safe, Way

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.

  Barack Obama

  Bridges, Effort, Democracy

  "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2015.

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• The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.

  Paul P. Harris

  Rotary, Firm, Built

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• Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

  Wilhelm Stekel

  Lying, Eye, People

  "Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel: The Life Story of a Pioneer Psychoanalyst". Book by Wilhelm Stekel, edited by Emil Arthur Gutheil, p. 206, 1950.

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• Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Mistake, Team, Weakness

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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• Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.

  Tinie Tempah

  Country, Home, Parent

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• Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the fullness of His love for His Father and us.  His love, meekness, condescension, knowledge, power, commitment to agency, and obedience combine to bring this elusive peace to all of God’s children.  Our peace was purchased by the shedding of the innocent blood of God’s purest Son.  Our trust in His capacity to bring us this peace can be complete because that has been part of His work and His glory from the beginning.

  David Wright

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• In every circumstance, though the nation has liberated already and we have worked for the nation, or we have not, providing the foundation for critical thinking to the people is still important.

  Khem Veasna

  Thinking, People, Important

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• The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Politics, Moral, Propaganda

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• So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.

  Jairek Robbins

  People, Busy, Spend Time

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• No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

  William Ralph Inge

  Civilization, Healthy

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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• I am grateful to organizations like the International Child Art Foundation that gives us the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of our nation’s young people. I encourage you to continue to support programs that help children to discover their talents and believe in themselves.

  Hillary Clinton

  Art, Children, Believe

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• School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators with school-age children enrolled them in private schools in 2001. Public school teachers enroll their children in private schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cities close to 50 percent.

  Walter E. Williams

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I want to get back to my foundation. And my foundation was my mechanics and the way I repeat them in such a dynamic way.

  Tim Lincecum

  Want, Way, Mechanic

  FaceBook post by Tim Lincecum from Mar 24, 2015

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• Our Gospel is a Gospel of blood; blood is the foundation; without it there is nothing.

  Martyn

  Blood

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• An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Information, Efficient, Built

  Speech at Arab ICT Regulators Forum, Movenpick Dead Sea, Jordan, March 21, 2004.

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• [C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Ideas, Movement, Politics

  Jonah Goldberg (2009). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.371, Penguin UK

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• Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

  Erin Pizzey

  Country, Civilization, Family Life

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• I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

  Aberjhani

  Civilization, Humanity, Failing

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Events

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• It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Soul, Honor

  "The Doctrine Of The Sword". "Young India" Journal, August 11, 1920.

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