Foundation Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Life Is, Lays

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Men, Other Worlds, Understanding

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• The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

  Flann O'Brien

  Father, Drinking, Son

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• A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.

  Haile Selassie

  Strong, Rain, Believe

  "My Life and Ethiopia's Progress : The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie" by Haile Selassie, translated by Edward Ullendorff, 1976.

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• Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

  Brian Chesky

  Passion, People, Innovation

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• Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Tyrants, Earth, Palaces

  Walter Savage Landor (1901). “Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern”

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• The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are always ready to improve our knowledge. Therefore a good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain: because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better elements of evidence, or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Doors, Views, Doubt

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• Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.

  T. D. Jakes

  Built

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• History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors.  Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part.  Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.

  George Wein

  Beautiful, Directors, Boards

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Strong

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• The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Missionary, Records, World

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• I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

  Beeban Kidron

  Country, Children, Communication

  "Films in schools are inspiring children with the joy of learning" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.

  Trisha Goddard

  Needs, Should

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• I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

  Janos Kadar

  Teamwork, Real, Men

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• Think of hope the minute you feel miserable with your life. Take up the habit of finding joy in the smallest of things in life. The misery you feel now will be a strong foundation for your future and you will become someone with an invaluable life. Also, hold the hand of the person next to you. Don’t think that you’re the only one living in this world. Don’t grow your sorrow on your own and ask for help from the person next to you.

  Jaejoong

  Strong, Thinking, Things In Life

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• I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Angel, Years

  Nolan Ryan (1999). “Nolan Ryan: The Road to Cooperstown”, Addax Publishing Group Incorporated

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• Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.

  Jude Bijou

  Goal, Planning, Projects

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare is the foundation of human culture and thought. Would you improve a nation? Give it, instead of declamations against sin, better food. Man is what he eats [Der Mensch ist, was er isst].

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Food, Heart, Science

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• One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Essence, Mind, Would Be

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• Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.

  David Eller

  Real, Diversity, Tolerance

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• To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Godly, Secret, Unseen

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• Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best researchers, clinicians and scientists to accelerate the translation of the most promising research into practical solutions. This commitment enables the ongoing leveraging of federal, provincial and private sector funds to allow Canadian SCI researchers to embark on a national and global collective journey towards making a difference in the lives of people with spinal cord injury and other disabilities.

  Rick Hansen

  Commitment, Journey, Differences

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