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• Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Humble

  "Library of Universal History". Book by Israel Smith Clare, p. 539, 1899.

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• Fear is the foundation of most governments.

  John Adams

  Fear, Patriotic, Government

  'Thoughts on Government' (1776)

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• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Democracy, Lasting Love, Lasting

  Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (1996). “Crisis of democratization”

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• Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

  Shemar Moore

  Inspirational, Strength, Women

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

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• If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

  Mark Hanna

  Trust, Stones, Structure

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• When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

  George Soros

  Principles, My Family, Economy

  "Why America Must Not Re-elect President Bush". www.project-syndicate.org. October 17, 2004.

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• The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

  Claudio Monteverdi

  Modern, Composer

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• I think it will be found that experience,
  the true source and foundation of all knowledge,
  invariably confirms its truth.

  Thomas Malthus

  Thinking, Economy, Source

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.14, eKitap Projesi

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• Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

  Lowell Milken

  Motivational, Teacher, Oxygen

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• The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

  Mitchell Baker

  Independent, Organization, Nonprofits

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Success, Integrity

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• Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

  Stafford Cripps

  Country, Economic, Productive

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• It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Country, Views, Law

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• I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

  Brenda Lee

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Fame

  Brenda Lee, Robert K. Oermann, Julie Clay (2002). “Little Miss Dynamite: the life and times of Brenda Lee”, Hyperion Books

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• The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

  Owen Chamberlain

  Past, Research, Structure

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• The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Men, People, Rehabilitation

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• I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Home, Play

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• The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.

  Ronald Reagan

  Generations, Succeed, Cherish

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

  Thomas Mann

  Dwelling, House, Humanity

  The New York Times, June 21, 1939.

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• The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Morality, Jew

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• Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

  Charlie Sheen

  Males, Looks, Excess

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Believe, Rights, Law

  "Obama Picks Hispanic Woman For Supreme Court". "National Public Radio News", www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Pregnancy, Sensual

  'On some technical Elements of Style in Literature' (1885)

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• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

  Randall Terry

  Fall, Being Free, Ten Commandments

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