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• I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.

  Eddie Vedder

  Water, Playing Music, Elements

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• The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

  Mark Hopkins

  Self, Overcoming, Principles

  MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.89

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• Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It's sort of a contradiction, but that's how it works somehow.

  Bjork

  Country, Iceland, Healthy

  Interview with Mathias Augustyniak and Michaal Amzalag, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Believe, Men, People

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• Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

  Ellen Kushner

  Real, Dark, Roots

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• They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.

  Amos Elon

  Strong, Clothes, Atheism

  Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe

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• The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Real, Interesting, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.

  Courteney Cox

  Needs, Kind

  "Courteney Cox Opens Up: The Interview". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 15, 2011.

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• So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Hippie, Cutting, Reality

  "What Do We Have To Teach Plato?". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, news.stlpublicradio.org. April 22, 2014.

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• Incidentally, I don't think there is a non-adjectival 'globalisation'. What we have now is a particular form: dominated by finance and multinational corporations and by a rhetoric (though not a reality) of 'free trade' and market forces. So I'm not a localist. I'm an internationalist, but one who believes (a) that such a thing is really only possible through a prior grounding and (b) that the terms of our present globalisation have to be challenged politically.

  Doreen Massey

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value, but instead of curling up in despair, or simply going along with the crowd like the 'passive' nihilist, he will recognize himself as the sole source of truths and values to live by.

  David E. Cooper

  Religious, Despair, Crowds

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My point is that the social forces liberals like to point to are real - I absolutely agree - but, at the same time, a good grounding from a family can make a huge difference.

  Steven James

  Real, Differences, Social

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump.

  Van Jones

  Wall, Opposites, Hatred

  Source: pen.org

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• Very often mothers go to work right away after the child is born and, unless the father or someone else stays home, this is quite serious. A baby has to be near its kin most of the time when he is little for three, four or five years. To give him this grounding, this feeling of connection, this feeling of relationship, is the most important thing.

  Laura Huxley

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

  John Rawls

  Doctrine, Citizens, Happens

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.621, Harvard University Press

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• I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, East, Needs

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Perhaps the most important contribution to me being centered in the midst of this chaos is my daughter, Krystal Ann. I am very lucky because she works with me and is responsible for many aspects of the business on the marketing side of my career. This allows us to travel together and experience life on the road, seeing the world. Having family with me is very important and grounding.

  Yanni

  Daughter, Careers, Marketing

  "Yanni: A Global Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Soul, Whole Life, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.

  Lily Cole

  School, Perspective, Found

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

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• I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.

  Kim Coles

  Knowing, Lessons, Had Enough

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• It really was something, to see Ram Bahadur Bomjon, apparently living without food or water. Before I went on that trip I'd asked advice on it from a very wise person who I love and revere - basically trying to see if I was somehow disrespecting Buddhism by trying to write about it, and also looking for some grounding on what stance to take ... and my friend said, "Well, why don't you just go and see?" And I hear that in my head all the time now: "Why don't you go and see?"

  George Saunders

  Wise, Writing, Buddhism

  Source: sojo.net

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• One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.

  David McCullough

  Regret, Latin, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.

  Rose Leslie

  Character, Talking, Foundation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

  Julian Ovenden

  Giving, Cameras, Doe

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• For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.

  Stuart Chase

  Philosophy, Political, Speech

  Stuart Chase (2015). “Tyranny of Words”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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