Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."
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Fundamentals
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Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy."
Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player
"Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise"
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . ."
Ali Khamenei
Political Leader
"The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial."
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"Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them."
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"Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you."
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"The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life."
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"Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess."
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"A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything."
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"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."
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"For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life..."
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"What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you."
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"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."
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"Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals."
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"Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions."
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"Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started."
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"Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there."
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"It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us."
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"Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth."
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"Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact."
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"The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer."
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"When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals."
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"The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist."
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"Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word."
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