Foundations Quotes

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I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a… — Joseph Story
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started… — Werner Heisenberg
The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail,… — Diane Ravitch
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest… — Diane Ravitch
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro… — Alexander H. Stephens
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf… — Tom Kite
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull… — Haile Selassie
The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt… — J. Edwin Orr
I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching… — Beeban Kidron
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in… — Janos Kadar
One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the… — L. E. J. Brouwer
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… — C L R James
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations… — Ibrahim Babangida
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.… — A. E. Housman
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a… — Thomas Keller
The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones… — George Matthew Adams
It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines… — Franz Alexander
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are… — Walter Benjamin
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess… — Garry Kasparov

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