"Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."
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"It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology."
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"Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence."
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"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State."
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"Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate."
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"Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things."
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"A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth."
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"The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron .... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."
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"Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living. And that's all there is to it. I've now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it."
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"The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life."
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"It [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate control. We ought to have a free internet, but that means having a free society, and there is fundamental questions there."
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"As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume."
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"At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental."
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"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought."
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"Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals."
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"One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage."
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"Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason."
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"It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism."
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"The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness."
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"We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that."
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