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• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  William Whewell

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Fundamental, Idea

• King’s response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

  Cornel West

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Fundamental, Response, Thinking

• Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

  Clive Bell

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  Tags in Fundamental, Effective, Questions

• Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

  Steven T. Katz

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• There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can’t send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

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• Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

  Abraham Pais

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  Tags in Relative, Fundamental, Aspired

• The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

  Sir David Attenborough

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

  Elia Kazan

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  Tags in Fundamental, Decencies, Price

• The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

  Ben Okri

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  Tags in Fact, Fundamental

• Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

  Christopher Dodd

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• As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

  Christopher Dawson

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  Tags in Christian, Social, Fundamental

• As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

  Christy Turlington

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• The New Deal’s enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  Garet Garrett

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  Tags in Fundamental, Capitalism

• This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

  Christopher Alexander

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Fundamental, Repair, World

• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer’s, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  Daniel Akaka

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  Tags in Diseases, Fundamental, Cancer, Aid

• The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

  Bertrand Russell

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  Tags in Fundamental, Energy, Concept

• It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Fundamental, Stranger, Thoughts, Meal

• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  Zac Efron

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