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Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have… — Janine Antoni
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish. — Herbert Hoover
The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell — Heinz Kohut
We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is… — Jamake Highwater
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem… — John Blacking
We can all agree that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, all children should have the basic nutrition they need to learn and grow and… — Michelle Obama
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is… — Joseph Stiglitz
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous… — Oswald Spengler
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen… — Nikola Tesla
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a… — Edgar Schein
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation… — Edgar Schein
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies… — Yvon Chouinard
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles)… — Ollie Johnston
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the… — Tracy Kidder
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise… — Stanley Greenspan
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent… — Matt Blunt

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