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• I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Wise, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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• The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

  David Attenborough

  Issues, Moral, Moral Issues

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• The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Simple, Law, Doe

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• The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

  Lech Walesa

  Order, Law, Movement

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• Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  John Ford

  Photography, Art, Eye

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

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• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Dad, Father

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Freedom versus Authority in Education"

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• Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motherhood, Principles, Reverence For Life

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

  Meg Whitman

  Technology, Interesting, Way

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• But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

  James Henry Breasted

  Lonely, Father, Land

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• The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

  Bob Inglis

  Freedom Of Religion, Converting

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• I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Trust, Honesty, Believe

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• You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Player, Games

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• The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

  Cornel West

  Life, Country, Patience

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• The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

  Johannes Stark

  Mean, Atoms, Layers

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• One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

  Janez Drnovsek

  World, Today, Equitable

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• What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Rights, Differences, Adults

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Change, People, Details

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• But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

  Chico Hamilton

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• I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

  David Antin

  Pursuit, Theory, Not Sure

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• Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

  Arlen Specter

  Voting, Democracy, Return

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• It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Political, Needs, Political Systems

  "Poll: Most say Arroyo should go", www.cnn.com. July 11, 2005.

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• The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

  John Adams

  Law, Support, Second Amendment

  John Adams (1794). “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778”, p.475

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• 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

  Artist, Ecosystems, Aspect

  Arthur Erickson's address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

  Elia Kazan

  Decency, Values

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

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