Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate."
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering."
Jefferson Davis
Politician, Military Leader
"Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation."
Tom Allen
Politician
"Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence."
Thomas Mann
Novelist
"For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious."
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"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness."
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"Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony."
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"Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure."
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"I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general."
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"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."
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"Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand."
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"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."
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"There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances."
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"The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law."
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"For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth."
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"The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges."
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"Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships."
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"Without proper foundations, there can be no fashion."
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"It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him."
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"Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits"
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"Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)"
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"When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty."
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"Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life."
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"As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it."
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"Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies."
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