Founders Quotes - Page 18

• Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his book Mutual Aid, arguing that human nature had evolved in ways conducive to the communitarian anarchism that he espoused.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Psychology, Way

  Source: libcom.org

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• The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Liberty

  David Barton (2013). “Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion”, p.30, BookBaby

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• Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, Actors, Flesh

  Source: deadline.com

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• I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.

  Susan Jacoby

  Prayer, Moving, Thinking

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the last half of the 18th century and early 19th century, articulated the rights of colonists, secured independence from Great Britain, and established new constitutional republics at both the national and state levels. This definition includes a cast of thousands who played their patriotic part at the local, state, and/or national levels. Among them were citizen soldiers, elected representatives, polemicists, and patriot preachers.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Father, Patriotic, Two

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users.

  Arfa Karim

  Numbers, Friendly, Microsoft

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Keys, Opposites

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad.

  Christine Jennings

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Prayer, Winning, Land

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice Of God, Liberty, Conviction

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.17, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

  James Madison

  Bible, God, Education

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• The great companies get built by their founders

  Marc Andreessen

  Great Company, Company, Built

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• The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

  Talib Kweli

  Christian, Love You, Feminist

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

  Ernst Mayr

  Loss, Science, Parent

  Ernst Mayr (1942). “Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

  Jessica Livingston

  Successful, Media, Path

  "The Advice For Any Woman Who Wants To Found A Startup" by Jessica Livingston, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 201.

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• Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

  Bart Decrem

  Parent, Being A Parent, Involved

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• Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

  Lynda Resnick

  Marketing, Entrepreneurial, Factories

  "Building Your Business From the Ground Up or Licensing Your Idea: Which Is Right for You?" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Of all the things that your company owns, brands are far and away the most important and the toughest. Founders die. Factories burn down. Machinery wears out. Inventories get depleted. Technology becomes obsolete. Brand loyalty is the only sound foundation on which business leaders can build enduring, profitable growth.

  Jim Mullen

  Loyalty, Technology, Leader

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• There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, School, Men

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• It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Success, Liberty, Generations

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• Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

  Joel Miller

  Government, Rivers, Today

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• I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sublime, No Friends, Christianity

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2331, Delphi Classics

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• The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.

  Mitt Romney

  Squares, Elimination, States

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

  Ed Crane

  Government, Limits, Danger

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• The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

  Walter E. Williams

  Mean, Government, Citizens

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