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• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  Haniel Long

  Family, Loyalty, Our Love

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.

  Aldo Leopold

  Integrity, Spring, Practice

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• Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people.

  J. Neil Schulman

  Gun, Rights, Government

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• The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

  Wendy Williams

  Ocean, Normal, Things Change

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• Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

  Boethius

  Heaven, Lasts, Admire

  Boethius (1999). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.52, OUP Oxford

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• Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Medicine, Political

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

  David Vitter

  Marriage, World, Social

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• Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.

  John L. Lewis

  Government, Political, Affair

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• My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Light, Television, Comedy

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• And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

  Rick Larsen

  Fighting, Aggravation, Terrorist Groups

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• This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

  George Pataki

  Opportunity, Thinking, Choices

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• How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Brain, Continuity

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• Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.

  Julius Evola

  Becoming, Spirit, Force

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• I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

  Shayne Ward

  Boxing, Gloves, Muhammad

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• A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

  Aldous Huxley

  Community, Identity, Stories

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.

  Dalai Lama

  Hands, Discipline, Joy

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• Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Faces, Helping

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• Id always assumed that by 40 Id have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

  Deborah Copaken

  Careers, Income, Half

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• Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

  Bill Mollison

  Technology, Creating, Urban Renewal

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• The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

  Bruce Sterling

  Accountability, Four, Honest

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• The people of Cyprus have sent a strong message...of stability, credibility and change.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Strong, People, Cyprus

  "Greek Cypriots elect Nicos Anastasiades as president" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2013.

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• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Struggle, Loss, Ukraine

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• The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

  George Bernard Shaw

  True Or False, Belief, Statesmen

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• While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Numbers

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• The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

  Barry Commoner

  Suicidal, Environmental, Warning

  Barry Commoner (2014). “The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology”, p.108, Knopf

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