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• Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

  Jaron Lanier

  Sirens, Blind, Narcissist

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

  Keith Olbermann

  Struggle, Odds, Years

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• Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.

  Vladimir Putin

  World Religions, Other Worlds, People

  Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, en.kremlin.ru. September 19, 2013.

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• The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Gone, Elements, Matter

  Jyllands-Posten, June 25, 2007.

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• No matter what, I want to experience a sense of peace while talking. As I look out into the audience, Ill remember to breathe and notice that at my core there is peace.

  M. J. Ryan

  Talking, Looks, Want

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.140, Conari Press

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• It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Vocabulary, Unity, Special

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• The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

  Frederick Franck

  Delusional, Constructs, Infallible

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 74, 1985.

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• But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.

  Mark Tobey

  Moon, Self, Creating

  "Reminiscence and Reverie" by Mark Tobey, Magazine of Art, 44, pp. 228, 231, October 1951.

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• The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.

  Robert Pollack

  Truth, Freedom, Mistake

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• Integrity is the core of our character.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

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• What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Essence, Inquiry

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• We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Heart, Night, Gentleman

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

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• The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

  Martin Short

  Family, Attention And Love, Persons

  Parade Magazine, January 23, 2000.

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• The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

  Robert Gilpin

  Assuming, Individual, Marxist

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.37, Princeton University Press

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• The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader.

  Kim Jong Il

  Loyalty, Party, Leader

  "On the Juche Idea". Treatise submitted to the National Seminar on the Juche Idea, March 31, 1982.

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• For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight.

  Melanie Phillips

  Keys, Law, Practice

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• The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

  Herbert Schiller

  Growing Up, Impact, Keys

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Mean, Going Away, Doe

  The Times of India, June 10, 2009.

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• All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Responsibility, Destiny, Focus

  "Your Destiny is What You Make of It". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 01, 2004.

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• Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.

  Daniel Crevier

  Wall, Victory, Inability

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• With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

  Barry Privett

  Pain, Unique, Childhood

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• Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

  Leon Botstein

  Character, Like Love, Resilience

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• By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Country, Men, Accountability

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• God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

  Angelus Silesius

  Roots, Religion, Care

  Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.57, World Wisdom, Inc

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• You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Effort, Enlightenment

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