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• The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

  Amelia Earhart

  Appreciation, Women, Home

  "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.

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• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  Garrett Hardin

  Religious, Thinking, Roots

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

  Herbert Hoover

  Ethos, Progress, Sides

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.30, Stanford University Press

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• Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Groups, Different, Politics

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• In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

  John Amery

  Men, Law, Habeas Corpus

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Principles, Mormonism, May

  "Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith". Book by Joseph Smith, p. 199, July 9, 1843.

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• Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

  Chuck Grassley

  Integrity, Drug, Secret

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• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

  Ted Olson

  Marriage, Rights, Usa

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• Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

  Christopher Dodd

  Bureaucracy

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• The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

  Ali Khamenei

  Teaching, Islamic, Rights

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• What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Association, Individual, Intimate

  "The Supreme Court; Excerpts From Major Opinions". Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1994.

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• Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president.

  Jim Jeffords

  Issues, President, Looking Ahead

  "Senator Jim Jeffords Leaves GOP, Handing Senate to Democrats". "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw and Lisa Myers, archives.nbclearn.com. May 24, 2001.

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• I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.

  Sarah Palin

  Jobs, America, Want

  "Palin Calls For Obama's Impeachment: 'Halt An Imperial Presidency'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 08, 2014.

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• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Peace, Nature

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

  Miles Franklin

  Relationship, Smile, Money

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.114, ETT Imprint

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• Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Moving On, Taught Us, Experience

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• My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path.

  Michael Kenna

  Believe, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing oneself to be run over. This is more than a play with words, it's fundamental.

  Paul Virilio

  Running, Mean, Expression

  Source: ctheory.net

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• "Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Art, World, Levels

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

  Marco Rubio

  Responsibility, Government, United States

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• There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Requirements, Conformity

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I care about systematically playing basketball. If the spacing isn't right, if guys are standing on top of each other, if there aren't lanes to be provided, or rebounders available to offensively rebound the ball, or we don't have defensive balance when a shot goes up, all of these things are fundamental basketball. I follow it.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Guy, Balance

  Source: espn.go.com

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• There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

  Allan Lichtman

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Simple, People, Joy

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