Quotes and Sayings About Fundamentals
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
-- A.C. Grayling -
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
-- Abraham Pais -
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
-- Adolf Galland -
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
-- Alan Keyes -
Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.
-- Alan Keyes -
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
-- Alan Lightman -
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
-- Albert Camus -
Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
-- Alexis Herman -
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment
-- Alfred Binet -
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
-- Alfred Korzybski -
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
-- Ali Khamenei -
There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
-- Ali Vincent -
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
-- Alison Gopnik -
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
-- Allen Tate -
Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
-- Ambrose -
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
-- Andrew Stanton -
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
-- Andy Grove -
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
-- Antonio Machado -
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.
-- Ariel Durant -
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
-- Arlen Specter -
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
-- Arthur Erickson
