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• In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Self

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• In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This begins with an understanding of the diversity of people's gifts and talents and skills. Recognizing diversity gives us the chance to provide meaning, fulfillment and purpose, which are not to be relegated solely to private life any more than such things as love, beauty and joy. The art of leadership lies in polishing and liberating and enabling those gifts.

  Max De Pree

  Art, Lying, Love Is

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• There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.

  Angeles Arrien

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Religious

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• Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ocean, Teaching, Inspiration

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• Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.

  Les Greenberg

  Inspirational, Thinking, Way

  "Should You Feel or Flee Your Emotions?" by Lisa Firestone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.

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• When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Children, Grief, Patterns

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

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• When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

  Steven Kotler

  Crazy, Mean, Animal

  Steven Kotler (2011). “A Small Furry Hope: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life”, p.174, A&C Black

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• My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.

  Adyashanti

  Infinite, Truth Is, Arise

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• We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Children, Believe, Humility

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• When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• "Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . .] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Leadership, Self, Games

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• There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.

  Joel Spolsky

  Writing, Thinking, Law

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress

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• In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Heart, Reality, Organization

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• Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Presidential, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

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• By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Creative, Metaphysical

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.21, Penguin

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• The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated. We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Religious, Heart, Men

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• The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lying, Reality, Wish

  Leon Trotsky, Joseph Hansen, George Edward Novack, James Burnham (1965). “In Defense of Marxism: Against the Petty-bourgeois Opposition”

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• Crude hasn't been responding to fundamentals all year. I think crude has been 8 to 10 overvalued for some time and has been responding to the fear of what could happen rather than the reality of what is happening.

  Kyle Cooper

  Reality, Thinking, Years

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• It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question was then, is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Independent, Government, Law

  "Freedom and its Obligations". Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, May 30, 1924.

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• Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

  Michael Shannon

  Design, Creative, World

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• As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves. ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.

  Rick Poynor

  Moving, Self, Breathing

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• Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Unity, Splits

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Retirement, Work, Greatness

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• Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Design, Matter

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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