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• One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

  Steve Pavlina

  Choices, Encounters, Faces

  Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Children, Men, Race

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• I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Believe, Thinking, Rationality

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals.

  John Manley

  Quality, Scum, Stuff

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• We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

  Jacob Needleman

  Humans, Human Beings

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• The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Development, Way, Problem

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• The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

  Max Barry

  Desire, Want, Persons

  Max Barry (2013). “Lexicon”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Past, Law, Effort

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• One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

  Titus Burckhardt

  Doe, Eternity, Knows

  Titus Burckhardt, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2006). “The Foundations of Christian Art: Illustrated”, p.2, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Day by day, the number of devices, platforms,
  and browsers that need to work with your site grows.
  Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift
  in how we'll build websites for the decade to come.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Numbers, Design, Needs

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• The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.

  Larry Dossey

  Doe, Different, Limits

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• We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak of the morals of an atom, or of the way in which a molecule conducts itself. But in the last analysis, science can draw no fundamental distinction between the conduct of an animal, a bullet, or a freshman, although there may be more unknown factors involved in one case than in the other.

  William Patten

  Animal, Sound, Molecules

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• Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior.

  Brian Greene

  Animal, Practice, People

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• Action is the fundamental key to success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Keys, Action, Key To Success

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• I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

  Albert Einstein

  Priorities, Mind, Essentials

  "Albert Einstein: Philosopher-scientist".

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• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Beautiful, Math, Simple

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• Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it to a secondary role, or that of an add on.

  John A. Hiigli

  Art, Design, Parent

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• Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Discipline, Common Sense

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• Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Philosophical

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• Reading our Bible is actually fundamental, but there is more if we are going to walk in His truth. Even if we read the Bible, if we do not read it by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, we will not understand it correctly.

  Rick Joyner

  Reading, Spirit, Holy

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• Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating intolerable conflict that can only increase the already dangerously high chances of our self-annihilation.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Religious, Differences

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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• Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Artist, Errors, Keys

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• On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

  Albert Einstein

  Hands, Left Hand, Add

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• The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'

  Scott Morrison

  Life, Honesty, Humility

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