Cornerstones Quotes - Page 5

• We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Made, Institutions

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• One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Hip Hop, Sampling, Hips

  Source: deadline.com

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• Look at the [Bill] Clinton Administration and now the [Barack] Obama administration more recently. What we believe is that we implement policies that help people reach the middle class which is the cornerstone of our economy.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Believe, Class, People

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Practice, Focus

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

  Ameen Rihani

  Spirit

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• The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Personality, Energy

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• Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.

  Joe Satriani

  Thinking, People, Care

  Guitar Magazine, August 1997.

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• Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Marriage, Struggle, Inspiration

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Weakness, Individual, Obedience

  Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminatus! Trilogy”, p.185, Hachette UK

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• A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Home, Years

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• The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

  Nicholas Roerich

  Beauty, Knowledge, Knowing

  Nicholas Roerich (1990). “Heart of Asia: Memoirs from the Himalayas”, p.1, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Long, Care

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• The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

  Marita Golden

  Educational, Real, Reading

  Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books

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• Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble .

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Religious, Mean, Men

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• To all those whose progress remains hampered by ego-related distractions, let humility - the spiritual cornerstone upon which Karate rests - serve to remind one to place virtue before vice, values before vanity and principles before personalities.

  Matsumura Sokon

  Spiritual, Art, Humility

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

  B. C. Forbes

  Honesty, Character, Belief

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Memorial, Tablets, Firsts

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  War, Men, White Man

  Alexander H. Stephens' “Corner Stone” Speech, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 21, 1861.

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• I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.

  Brian Setzer

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

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• The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Citizens, Sacred

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• Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

  Jack London

  Practice, Civilization, Enemy

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no doubt in my mind that Masonry is the cornerstone of America.

  Dave Thomas

  America, Doubt, Mind

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• In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.

  Jim Thompson

  Girl, Running, Jobs

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.

  Sadako Ogata

  Japan, Perspective, Effort

  "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.

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