Founded Upon Quotes
66 quotes by 61 authors
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions…
— George W. Bush
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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by…
— Jacques Monod
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The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
— George Washington
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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott…
— Cesar Chavez
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The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams…
— Lord Kelvin
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Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided…
— James Madison
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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary…
— Daniel Bernoulli
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the…
— Richard Owen
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The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom…
— St. Jerome
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All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our…
— Joseph Story
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All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of…
— Walter Russell
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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,…
— George Boole
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That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love…
— Livy
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See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to…
— Richard Sibbes
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Society is founded upon Cloth;
— Thomas Carlyle
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Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a…
— Josef Pieper
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Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the…
— Robert Hugh Benson
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I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real…
— Antonin Dvorak
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