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• I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

  Albert Einstein

  Priorities, Mind, Essentials

  "Albert Einstein: Philosopher-scientist".

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• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Beautiful, Math, Simple

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• Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Discipline, Common Sense

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• Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Philosophical

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating intolerable conflict that can only increase the already dangerously high chances of our self-annihilation.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Religious, Differences

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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• Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Artist, Errors, Keys

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• The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'

  Scott Morrison

  Life, Honesty, Humility

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• What are we going to get out of life? This can understandably be a question of fundamental importance to us. We begin with certain basic needs and desires. It is important to have a comfortable home, plenty of food, a meaningful and well-paying job, comfort, companionship, and joy. However, many of us have not fully realized a simple, basic principle: for our receiving to take place, we must first give. Giving and receiving are two aspects of the same law of life.

  John Templeton

  Life, Meaningful, Jobs

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• In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Change, Attachment, Wish

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.162, Penguin

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• The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.

  William Howard Taft

  Philosophy, Character, Taught

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• But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

  Douglas Wilson

  Atheist, Hate, Moving

  "Is Christianity Good for the World?". Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson, www.christianitytoday.com. May 25, 2007.

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• The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

  George Washington

  Majority, Principles, Constitution

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• The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Truth, Practice, Civilization

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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• The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Successful, Thinking

  "2000 - part two" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2000.

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• Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

  John McCain

  Strong, Thinking, Economy

  "McCain: Fundamentals of Economy are 'Strong' but 'Threatened'". Speech at the Rally in Jacksonville, voices.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2008.

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• A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

  Harry S. Truman

  Character, Men, Moral

  "Mr. Citizen".

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• By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Division, Mystery

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• It is important for us also to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home, there are fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Home, Organization

  "The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

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• The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Patriotism, Sanctions, Hush

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• We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

  Nathan M. Pusey

  Change, Play, Growth

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• For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Practice, Needs

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• I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

  Northrop Frye

  Literature, Speech, Our Society

  "The Educated Imagination". Book by Northrop Frye, 1963.

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• An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Men, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence in history. Here we will discover even more fundamental forces at work over time. And to appreciate those forces we must now and then get out of parliamentary chambers, out of birthing rooms and factories, get out of doors altogether, and ramble into fields, woods, and the open air. It is time we bought a good set of walking shoes, and we cannot avoid getting some mud on them.

  Donald Worster

  Air, Doors, Shoes

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• Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

  John Marshall

  Government, Law, Void

  Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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