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• The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Unity, Splits

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Retirement, Work, Greatness

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• Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Design, Matter

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

  Eric Schmidt

  People, Information, Social Media

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• We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

  Al Sharpton

  Country, Real, Needs

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• I don't think a comedian should even be concerned with being cool or sexy, as soon as you do, you aren't a comedian any more. Looks are still the most important thing for women when it comes to meeting a partner. And that's fair enough, but a sense of humour is really important too. For starters, it's a great indicator of whether you are going to get on. If the first time you go on a date you don't find each other funny, there's a fundamental problem.

  Ricky Gervais

  Sexy, Thinking, Comedian

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• "He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

  Adolf Galland

  Defense, Air Power, Want

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954”

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• Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

  Amory Lovins

  Life, Leadership, Healing

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• As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise, laws that govern human wellbeing. It seemed to me that these laws are fundamental not only to the wellbeing of societies, but also to the miniature societies of organizations. Indeed, that is what we found when we began to apply these principles systematically at Koch Industries. Through our observation of how they could create prosperity in an organization, I began to systematize my beliefs into Market-Based Management.

  Charles Koch

  Law, Organization, Principles

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• What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Individuality, Body

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• Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives. With different words, they all proclaim the same core message: "Be not afraid." Though the traditions vary widely in the ways they propose to take us beyond fear, all hold out the same hope: we can escape fear's paralysis and enter a state of grace where encounters with otherness will not threaten us but will enrich our work and our lives.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Spiritual, Fear, Effort

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church; young people, who are the face of the Church's future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith and who are a daily source of strength in a society that carries this faith forward and renews it.

  Pope Francis

  Cells, Play, Passing On

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• The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Mean, Community

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• Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Knowing, Order

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Strong, Mistake

  Thomas Carlyle (1993). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

  Sigmund Freud

  Differences, Groups, Prejudice

  Moses and Monotheism ch. 3, pt. 1 (1938)

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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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• It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Law, Human Nature, Possession

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1964). “If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature”

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• There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ. At every appropriate opportunity, testify of the Savior and of the power of His Atoning sacrifice. Use scriptures that teach of Him and why He is the perfect pattern for everyone in life.4 You will need to study diligently. Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord. With a solid, personal doctrinal foundation, you will be a powerful source for sharing vital truths with others who desperately need them.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Powerful, Teaching

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• If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

  George Santayana

  Despair, Ordinary, Matter

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Numbers, Knows

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired. It is so fundamental to human existence that it's not going away. It must have a genetic component.

  Eric Schmidt

  Going Away, Problem, Affinity

  "Google's Schmidt Says Internet 'Cesspool' Needs Brands" by Nat Ives, adage.com. October 8, 2008.

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• There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.

  Asra Nomani

  Sex, Men, Flaws

  Interview with Shimaila Matri Dawood, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.

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• Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

  Robert Frost

  Sex, Motivation, Passion

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• The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Agony, Affliction

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.14, Discovery House

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