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• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the… — Saint Augustine
• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist… — Saint Augustine
• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?… — Saint Augustine
• We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
• A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise… — Sai Baba
• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. — Ibrahim Babangida
• I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing… — Stephen Baldwin
• When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then. — Dennis Banks
• Fear is the foundation of most governments. — John Adams
• We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. — Henry Ward Beecher

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