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• What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Pleasure, Please

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1906). “A Selection from the Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”

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• The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

  John Masefield

  Mistake, Practice, Design

  John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright

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• The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  School, Views, Issues

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Comte and Hegel (pt. 3), 1952.

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• Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

  Richard Cobden

  Strong, Lying, Work

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• The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Long, Records

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• At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Lying, Thinking, Belief

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Persuade yourselves, that the faith of the gospel is beyond the power of nature; that there is a necessity of a power from on high to bring you to believe. This will raze the old foundation, and cause you to look up for it.

  Thomas Boston

  Believe, Looks, Causes

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• The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

  Gary North

  Law, Criminals, Negative

  Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• The purpose of God's blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing.

  Brian Houston

  Blessed, Blessing, Impact

  Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.20, Hillsong Music Australia

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• I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

  Peter Furler

  Book, Biblical, Purple

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• Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living. If Ladakh now succeeds in creating for itself a future which retains the foundations of its traditional past, it will be an inspiring example of how all the various elements of an ecological future fit together.

  Helena

  Past, Creating, Together

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• All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Compassion, Destination, Pursuit

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• Attitude precedes service. Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people. 'You become what you think about' is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  Jeffrey H. Gitomer (1998). “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know”, Bard

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• You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper.

  Ted Nugent

  Animal, Population, Habitat

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• Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children's charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children's charity than the hunters donate we won't go hunting.

  Ted Nugent

  Children, Cancer, Opportunity

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, Jim Cramer, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Art, School, Successful

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• Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

  Giambattista Basile

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• Our strategic evolution has established Monsanto as the leading innovator in agricultural seeds and technology, .. The financial discipline we have exercised has also allowed us to establish a solid foundation which is poised for growth in the years ahead.

  Terry Crews

  Technology, Years, Discipline

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• A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.

  Jim Bunning

  Family, Children, Needs

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• The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.

  Asger Jorn

  Artist, Soil, Path

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Europe, World, Prosperity

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• We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.

  Joseph Muscat

  Dream, Strong, Fighting

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• Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things.

  Piet Mondrian

  Nature, Emotional, Inspire

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• Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.

  Robert Stuart MacArthur

  Christ, Sand, Eternity

  Robert Stuart MacArthur (1890). “The Calvary Pulpit: Christ and Him Crucified”

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• The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

  Max Planck

  Science, Essentials, Enquiry

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