"The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom."
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"The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant."
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"The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed."
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"For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do."
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"To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence."
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"The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!"
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"There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much."
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"To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad."
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"The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast."
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"[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect."
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"Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment."
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"Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry."
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"There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick."
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"Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost."
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"Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity."
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"There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so."
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"There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world."
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"It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children."
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"I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun."
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"He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing."
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