Fundamentals Quotes - Page 23

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living.
And that's all there is to it. I've now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it.

L. Ron Hubbard

Purpose, Given, Existence

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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

Wendell Berry

Despair, Sake, Way

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Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want

John Whitmore

Essentials, Want

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The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

R. C. Sproul

Heart, Loss, Desire

R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.95, Baker Books

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The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.

Sakyong Mipham

Mind, May, Way

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Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

Anthony Horowitz

Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Humans

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Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.

Ross Perot

Leadership, Done, Like You

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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian, Grief, Holiday

"Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

Jaggi Vasudev

Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Gilles Deleuze

Thinking, Encounters, World

Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.176, A&C Black

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The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Character, People, Wish

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When you are awakened to being a being, even though you're not yet being it, the purpose of you being in a body fundamentally shifts. In that shift, you know within that you are not first any longer about your humanness. Your humanness is included and it's no longer fundamental, altering your sense of reality.

John de Ruiter

Reality, Humanness Is, Purpose

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There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

Neil Postman

Escaping, Glory, Dilemma

"Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life.

Steve McCurry

Years, Long, Cameras

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Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

Dan Rostenkowski

Running, Risk, Reform

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The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology

Stephen Arroyo

Reality, Four Elements, Astrology

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The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

Bill Buxton

Sketching, Asking

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A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

Mika Brzezinski

Lying, People, Cover Ups

"Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

Lea Salonga

Believe, Cities, Married

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A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.

Grant Morrison

Reading, Player, Dvds

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This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.

Pope John Paul II

Roots, Civilization, Economic Inequality

Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.

Steven Weinberg

People, Religion, Important

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And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.

James Otis

Book, Opportunity, Hands

"James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens.

Pope John Paul II

Sports, Sunday, Weekend

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Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?

Cliff Asness

Believe, Taken, Boys

"Health Care Mythology" by Cliff Asness, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 22, 2009.

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