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"The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail."
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"It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself."
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"That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer."
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"The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration."
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"It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair."
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"A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness."
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"Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions."
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"The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others."
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"Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed."
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"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
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"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
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"If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability."
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"Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities."
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"A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness."
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"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."
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"We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there."
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"We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated."
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"The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing."
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"Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental."
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