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• Fundamentals in the gaming sector remained relatively healthy during the first quarter.

  Brian Gordon

  Healthy, Firsts, Quarters

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• Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and naturally find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw continuously.

  Rico Lebrun

  Drawing, Design, Woven

  University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”

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• I am nature. Nature is me. What I create is what I must create. That I create it is fundamental. I am both anonymous and very precious since I belong to all growth which is life. Therefore I must grow well. What I shape I must shape well.

  Jack Shadbolt

  Growth, Shapes, Wells

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• The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.

  Joan Robinson

  Nature, Money, Work

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.1, Springer

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• Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

  Kobo Abe

  Work, Men, Flight

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.158, Vintage

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• Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.

  Lucy Parsons

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  "The Principles of Anarchism". A Lecture by Lucy E. Parsons, lucyparsons.org.

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• Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Block, Democracy, Balance

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially regarding wage-setting and other aspects of the employment relationship, would be essential if full employment was to be sustained.

  Jim Stanford

  Political, Essentials, Neoliberalism

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

  William Crookes

  Inquiry, Firsts, Chemicals

  Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain), Society for Psychical Research (London, England), Henry Sidgwick, Balfour Stewart, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1912). “Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911”

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• Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.

  John Carroll

  Meaningful, Cutting, Economic Models

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• There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Country, Skills, Example

  "Go Open Source Puts R3m Into Building Linux Channel". tectonic.co.za. January 30, 2006.

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• There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Heart, Reality

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• The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.

  Lawrence Lessig

  War, Creativity, People

  WIPO Magazine Interview, www.wipo.int. February, 2011.

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• If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Two, Presidential, Vices

  "Lawrence Lessig Has a 'Moonshot' Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy". Interview with Joshua Holland, billmoyers.com. April 25, 2014.

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• I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

  Lyle Lovett

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

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• Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another place] at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?

  Seth Lloyd

  Believe, Pieces, Strange

  "A Quantum Leap in Computing". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. July 21, 2011.

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• Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

  China Mieville

  Two, Influence, Socialism

  "Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville". Interview with Joan Gordon, www.depauw.edu. November 2003.

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• I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").

  Linus Torvalds

  Crazy, Believe, Evolution

  Linux-kernel mailing list, September 28, 2006.

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• Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given time. And since it does not really believe in the power of argument, its last resort is generally a claim to superior wisdom, based on some self-arrogated superior quality.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Self, Ideas

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Differences, Asking, Pay

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself.

  Jean-Baptiste Biot

  Taken, Steps, Firsts

  John Farrar, Jean-Baptiste Biot, César Mansuète Despretz (1839). “Elements of Electricity, Magnetism, and Electro-dynamics: Embracing the Late Discoveries and Improvements, Digested Into the Form of a Treatise : Being the Second Part of a Course of Natural Philosophy, Compiled for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England”, p.2

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• Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Fighting, Judgement, Negative

  Il Corriere della Sera, September 13, 2008.

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• The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

  Alan Hirsch

  Christian, Adventure, Soul

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

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• We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

  Harold Innis

  Growth, Culture, Institutions

  Harold Innis (2017). “The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History”, p.318, University of Toronto Press

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• One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  War, Successful, People

  "Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic". Book by Edmund J. Keller, 1991.

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