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• We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

  James D. Houston

  Thinking, Play, Sensual

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• Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.

  Barack Obama

  Stupid Liberal, National Security, Seems

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• For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

  Anthony Braxton

  Creativity, Errors, Creative

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• We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Decision, Fearless, Challenges

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• There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

  Elon Musk

  Stars, Differences, Space

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Maintenance, Fixing

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• Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

  Rufino Tamayo

  Art, Believe, Path

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• At its best new wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

  Lester Bangs

  Dream, Fashion, People

  New Musical Express (December 1977), as quoted in "Various Artists: No Thanks!: The 70s Punk Rebellion" by Eric Carr, pitchfork.com. February 10, 2004.

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• We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

  Mary Travers

  Mean, Rights, Air

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• The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one

  Stephen King

  Hard Work, Writing, Dedication

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• The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Keys, Achievement, Improvement

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• House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Past, Years

  Ben Bernanke's Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 20, 2005.

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• It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Intellectual, May

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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• The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Writing, People, Advice

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• The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

  Twyla Tharp

  Granted, Great Ones

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

  Raymond Williams

  Country, Cities, Way

  Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

  Roger Goodell

  Sports, Nfl, League

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• The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

  Richard DuFour

  Inspirational, Teaching, School

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• Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull market is typically a blow-off, whereas the mania runs wild and prices go parabolic... There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Running, Moving, Blow

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• Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Development, Today, Break

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• Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.

  Richard Florida

  Creativity, Class, Creative

  Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.7, Basic Books

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• At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw out the greatest talent, ingenuity, and creativity of their people and never become truly great, enduring organisations. It stems from an incomplete paradigm of who we are - our fundamental view of human nature. The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Creativity, Simple

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• No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

  Murray Rothbard

  Men, Libertarian, Violence

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• I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect. I see us as well as social creatures, and when I began to look back and say, ‘what is the fundamental bottom line for us as social creatures?’I couldn’t believe it because it seemed so hippy dippy, but it was Love. Love is the force that makes us fully human.

  David Suzuki

  Believe, Humility, Love Is

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• Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

  Joichi Ito

  School, Independent, College

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