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"I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children."
"Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology."
"We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week."
"The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next."
"I am the donation to the foundation."
"When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life."
"Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest."
"I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue."
"I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder."
"The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience."
"The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love."
"Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end."
"One thing I really don't like seeing is when girls do a full contour and then foundation and then powder and then more contour and it's a full face of makeup. I don't like that at all."
"In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions."
"The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life."
"The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible."
"We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering."
"The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality."
"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics."
"Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life."
