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"Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also, but there is a deeper foundation - meeting that human being in a state of shared presence."
"As you climb, you grow deeper in the foundation, so it makes our foundation deeper."
"That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time."
"Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation."
"The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common."
"As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature."
"By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do."
"There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea."
"Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there." It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren [Buffett] trusted us."
"I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation."
"The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life."
"I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine."
"There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death."
"The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship."
"Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on."
"To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion."
"A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for; but it must first be revealed to the man of God, lest we should run too far."
"I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation"
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's."
"The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements."
