Foundations Quotes
323 quotes by 277 authors
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations…
— Saint Augustine
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
— Mahmoud Abbas
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back…
— Sai Baba
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I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!
— Stephen Baldwin
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to…
— Annie Besant
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations…
— Annie Besant
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want…
— Eli Broad
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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot…
— George W. Bush
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
— C. West Churchman
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The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories…
— Lester Thurow
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The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats…
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that…
— James A. Baldwin
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Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
— Winston Churchill
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which…
— Augustus
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Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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