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“It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.”

Ifs Needs Should Believe Enough Fundamentals Forgiving Despite Biblical Suggestions Always Believe Adages

Author:Ivan Doig

“Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.”

Ifs Men Long Might Next Sound Hours Issues Minutes Decided Bigger Fundamentals Stakes Procrastination

Author:John J. Raskob

“It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.”

Ifs Way Reason Whole Our Lives Cutting Goodness Fundamentals Good Things Spread Connected Violent Ties Germs

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.”

Ifs Way Reason Care Social Roles Our Lives Understood Advantage Fundamentals Our Society Social Network

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.”

“But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!”

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Author:Denis Diderot

“If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.”

Ifs Humans Stills Numbers Democracy Violence Streets Policy Speech Victim Fundamentals Inequality Addresses Foreign Policy Freedom Of Speech Microcosm

Author:Gloria Steinem

“If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.”

Ifs Men Want Persons Love You Messages Treats Fellows Fundamentals Neighbor Treated Fellow Man

Author:Denzel Washington

“My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.”

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Book:No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider

Source: No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider

“There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'”

Ifs Has Beens I Can Today Imagine Expectations Fundamentals Customers Paradigm Paradigm Shift

Author:Kim Williams

“For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society--a fact that we are still forbidden to recognize. This knowledge concerns every single one of us, and--if disseminated widely enough--should lead to fundamental changes in society; above all, to a halt in the blind escalation of violence.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.”

Ifs Facts Reality Individual Social Principles Practice Objects Criticism Method Fundamentals Sociology Domain Basic Principles Sociological

Author:Emile Durkheim

“We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via price). We are equally sure that if he places his emphasis on timing, in the sense of forecasting, he will end up as a speculator and with a speculator's financial results." And "The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.”

“Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.”

“I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way.... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth.”

Ifs Way Want States Becoming Solutions Fundamentals Democratic Depth Jew Convinced Palestinian Doomed Palestine Strategic

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.”

Ifs Values Belief Fundamentals Conviction Preserves Philanthropy Charitable Philanthropic Personal Beliefs

Author:Robert L. Payton

“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.”

“If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.”

Ifs World Feels Self Black White Existence Illusion Fundamentals Structure Stranger Fabric Deep Down Flukes Probation

Author:Alan Watts

“The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.”

Ifs Humans Wish Principles Ought Conflict Fundamentals Affair Negotiation Misunderstanding Utopia Pointless Fundamental Principles

Author:Umberto Eco

“I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't want to consider the injustices around me. I don't want any encounters with the disenfranchised. I want to say it's not my fault. But it is, it's yours and mine, and ours. We'd better figure out ways to spread some equity around if we want to go on living in a society that is at least semi-functional. It's a fundamental responsibility, to ourselves.”

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Author:William Kittredge

“If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.”

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Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.”

Ifs Looks Matter Character Film Directors Fundamentals Scripts

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“If a country is an attractive place for foreigners to invest their funds, then that country will have a relatively high exchange rate. If it's an unattractive place, it will have a relatively low exchange rate. Those are the fundamentals that determine the exchange rate in a floating exchange rate system.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.”

Ifs Knows Giving Universe Belief Give Me Fundamentals Knowledge Of God Limited Knowledge

Author:George Coyne

“...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.”

Ifs States Law Political Politics Lost Cities Constitution Fundamentals Greek Necks Proposal Revision Nooses

Author:Aristotle

“If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.”

Ifs Children Form Ready Labor Agree Fundamentals March Not Ready Elimination Abusive Child Labor Child Labour

Author:Alexis Herman

“The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”

“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.”

Source: The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism

“Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem”

Ifs Problem Fundamentals Fundamentalism

Author:Sam Harris

“If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.”

Ifs Men World Feels Believe Shows Christianity Fundamentals Doctrine

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

“Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.”

Ifs Wells Mean Ideas Matter Play Happens Study Calling Fundamentals Score Innate Rotting Wrong Ideas

Author:William Eggleston

“... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.”

Ifs Knows Answers Principles Cases Produce Tests Fundamentals Testing Fundamental Principles

Author:Brian Kernighan

“These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: "What do you do?" is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.”

Ifs Humans Values Bases Fundamentals Disaster Behaviour Dharma Human Values Emanate Human Behaviour

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.”

Ifs Should Mean Humanity Survival Fundamentals Absurd Defined Submission

Author:Kristina Schroder

“It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.”

Ifs Doe Seems Speak Fundamentals Holiness Justify Attributes Emphasis Selection Holiness Of God Attributes Of God

Book:Systematic Theology

Source: Systematic Theology

“As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.”

“There are a few pretty fundamental differences. In voice acting, if you are doing game recording, for the most part you are going to be by yourself in a studio. With game voice acting you are constructing everything for yourself pretty much. You're thinking about what the other characters could be doing, trying to imagine the scene, you're constructing the entire environment for yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Character Games Voice Differences Acting Environment Imagine Scene Fundamentals Studios Voice Acting

Author:Ashly Burch

“You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.”

Ifs Wells Perfect Fundamentals

Book:Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

“I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.”

“Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or technical, is likely to be far more accurate. For example, if a chartist interprets a particular pattern as a top formation, but the market is only up 10% from the last low, the odds are high that the projection will be incorrect. However, if the market is up 25% to 30%, then the same type of formation should be given a great deal more weight.”

Ifs Should Use Age Lasts Moving Given Deals Example Particular Type Lows Weight Method Fundamentals Historical Patterns Accurate Odds Projection Exceed Formation Median

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.”

Ifs Reality Light Faces Father Memories Doubt Fundamentals Communion

Book:Two worlds for memory

Source: Two worlds for memory

“Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined”

Ifs May Government Struggle Issues Crosses Fundamentals Defined Falsehood Consistently

Author:Zechariah Chafee

“To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others...If even the harshest of critics tacitly adopt these premises, then the ordinary person may ask, who am I to disagree?”

“One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.”

Ifs Knows Religious Humility Judgment Ultimate Fundamentals

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.”

“In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?”

“My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.”

“If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'”

Ifs Ideas Age Found Church Fundamentals University Architecture Rome Embodiment Victorian Moscow Capitol Kitsch

Author:Hermann Broch

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