Quotes with foundation

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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Kofi Annan Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
    Faceboek (2016)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bill Drayton Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • John Adams Fear is the foundation of most governments.
    Thoughts on Government, Apr. 1776
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Cassiodorus For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.
    Variae, Bk. 9, no. 21; p. 122
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Bev Perdue From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Algernon Sidney Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Edmund Burke Good order is the foundation of all good things.
    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Asa Gray I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Anne Frank I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Malthus I think it will be found that experience,
    the true source and foundation of all knowledge,
    invariably confirms its truth.
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Tony Robbins I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Bertil Ohlin In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Lydia Sigourney In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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