Quotes and Sayings About Foundation
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Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it is a short war ... with minimum casualties.
-- Abdullah GulSource : "Powell backs post-Djindjic reforms", www.cnn.com. April 2, 2003.
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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life...
-- Adolf Hitler -
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.
-- Alan AutrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
-- Alan BullockSource : Alan Bullock (1964). “Hitler, a study in tyranny”, Harpercollins College Div
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
-- Alan Greenspan -
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At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
-- Alasdair MacIntyreSource : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.78, A&C Black
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The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
-- Albert Pike -
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
-- Albrecht Durer -
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .
-- Albrecht Durer -
For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
-- Alexander CockburnSource : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.182, Verso
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I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.
-- Alexander SuvorovSource : "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.
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Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
-- Alexis SoyerSource : Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.88
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Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character....
-- Alfred Armand MontapertSource : Alfred Armand Montapert (1978). “The way to happiness: the eternal quest of mankind”, Prentice Hall
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If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
-- Alfred North WhiteheadSource : Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
-- Alicia Vikander -
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The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
-- Ambrose Bierce