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“I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well.”

“The old fundamental principles must continue to apply, even in our changing society: Democracy knows neither master nor slave. Equal education opportunities for all, no matter where they come from and no matter who their parents are. Equal access as well when it comes to digitalization.”

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Author:Martin Schulz

“I found that the death penalty - and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person - but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?”

Thinking Knows Persons Found Issues Hot Raises Fundamentals Redemption Buttons Penalties Death Penalty Very Deep

Author:Shane Claiborne

“One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.”

“Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and you have a lot of people in the world pretty unhappy with things as they are. Modern communications make all of this known to people far and wide, and we see the fundamental unfairness of it all.”

“You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.”

“We know for a fact the Russians tried to change the outcome of our election, attacking the very fundamental of democracy. We know they did that. We need to know how, we need to know why, and most of all we need to know what to do to prevent this kind of activity, which they continue to carry on in free nations around the world.”

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Author:John McCain

“Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.”

Knows Men Needs Long Home Levels Party Liberty Principles Careers Trump Fundamentals Locals Tea Willingness Castles Tea Party Sideshows

Author:Michelle Malkin

“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”

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Author:John Henry Newman

“I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Can Do Company Industry Activity Fundamentals Advertising Consumers Phenomenon Platforms Google Overlapping Advertising Industry

Author:Eric Schmidt

“Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.”

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.”

Knows Needs Different Together Secret Mystery Ultimate Fundamentals Metaphysical

Book:The Tao of Philosophy

Source: The Tao of Philosophy

“Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.”

Knows Way Ideas Stories Attitude Compassion Principles Too Much Judgment Fundamentals Connected Fundamental Principles

Author:Deena Metzger

“I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.”

Knows Said Hard Mother Talking Baby Absolutes Fundamentals Cookies Homemade Single Mother Homemade Cookies

Book:Strangers

Source: Strangers

“Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.”

Knows Stills Two Kids Used Guy Three Steps Growing Up Growing Player Smart Fundamentals Used To Be Dominant Fleeting Kids Growing Up Athleticism

Author:Kobe Bryant

“But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.”

Knows Want Firsts Heart Kind Said Fall Interest Mistake Brain Opinion Seeing Missing Fundamentals Genuine Arise Cursed Vines

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.”

Knows Book Problem Humanity Reading Essentials Survival Fundamentals Convinced Spectacular Apolitical

Book:Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist

Source: Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)”

Knows Doe Art Eye Beautiful Emotion Wonder Fundamentals Mysterious His Eyes Cradle Beautiful Experiences

Book:All Souls Trilogy

Source: All Souls Trilogy

“One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.”

Knows Feels Wells Children Fundamentals Apologizing Sage

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.”

Knows Turns Causes Waiting Love Is Goes On Fundamentals Affair Loved Ones Expecting

Book:Sleeping Murder, The Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Sleeping Murder, The Murder at the Vicarage

“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.”

Knows Life Feels Art Emotion Wonder Source Fundamentals Mysterious Candle Cradle Art And Science Amazement

Author:Albert Einstein

“The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.”

Knows Life Is Knowledge Fundamentals Assumption Desirable Unconditional

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.”

Knows Important Facts Science Universe Fundamentals Discworld Bewildered Ordinary Things

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.”

Knows May Ideas Science Religion Common Knowledge Path Accounts Fundamentals Insight Uncomfortable Endeavor Suppression

Author:Carl Sagan

“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).”

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“All religions are nothing but a science - or an art - to teach you how to die. And the only way to teach you how to die is to teach you how to live. They are not separate. If you know what right living is, you will know what right dying is. So the first thing, or the most fundamental thing is: how to live.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Art Dies Teach Dying Fundamentals

Author:Rajneesh

“Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.”

“Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.”

Knows World Mind Body Hands Action Law Causes Realizing Known Effects Keys Speech Responsible Fundamentals Your Body Karma Recognition Empowering Our Future Your Future Cause And Effect

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.”

Knows Country Government Law Break Wise Ought Politician Constitution Fundamentals Sacred Breasts Reverence Rulers Restriction Cautious Be Cautious

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.”

Source: Out of my later years

“Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.”

Knows World Shows Culture Games Know How Taught Mark Fundamentals Entertainment Opera Soap Soap Operas Microcosm

Author:Michael Weatherly

“This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can - can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous.”

Knows Men Christian Belief Dog Objects Okay Tables Fundamentals Ridiculous Clock One Man Marrying One Woman Slippery Slopes Inanimate Objects Slippery Slope

Author:Rebecca Kleefisch

“We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life.”

People Knows Mind Persons Stories Use Language Memories Information Communication Fundamentals Layers Life Story

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another”

Knows Long Philosophy Values Principles Regret Approach Long Time Fundamentals Embrace Investment Abandon Investors Fundamental Principles

Author:Seth Klarman

“I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my work. However, he read through it and said, 'This is useless. What makes the stock go up and down?' That comment acted as a spur. Thereafter, I focused my analysis on seeking to identify the factors that were strongly correlated to a stock's price movement as opposed to looking at all the fundamentals. Frankly, even today, many analysts still don't know what makes their particular stocks go up and down.”

“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.”

Knows Mind Facts Body Process Fundamentals Medicine Spite Biology Neglect Process Of Life

Author:Franz Alexander

“It is important for us also to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home, there are fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change.”

Knows Needs Children Important Home Together Effort Ought Aspect Organization Our Children Fundamentals Etc Our Relationship Never Change Reunion Family Reunion

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.”

Knows Literature Language Study Speech Fundamentals Our Society Free Speech

Author:Northrop Frye

“We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.”

Knows Trying I Can Forget Issues Listening Fine Fundamentals Climate Radio Bullshit Vacuous

Author:Thom Yorke

“Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.”

People Knows Art Eye Mystery Directors Photography Direct Fundamentals Photograph Cinema Filmmaker Cinematography

Author:John Ford

“Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us.”

Knows Years Two Humanity Belief Given Differences Break Fundamentals Jew Observation Divided Duality Primal Triviality Gentiles

Author:Maurice Samuel

“Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.”

Knows Numbers Business Fundamentals

Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

“This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.”

People Thinking Knows Years Real Christian Speak Audience Trouble Republican Conflict Election Fundamentals Clouds Enjoyment Desperate Concerts Pipe Election Years

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.”

People Knows Writing Motivation Humility Prejudice Blame Fundamentals Arguing Prisoner Fragments Impetus Specifics

Book:The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.”

Knows Pain Strong Darkness Awareness Healthy Fundamentals Golden Within You

Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of time, space, or being. In that liberated state you can see fundamental truth and the phenomenal world simultaneously. That is called Buddha's world. That is the place where all sentient beings exist, so you can stand up there and see all beings, myriad beings. Then you know very clearly, through your own emotional and intellectual understanding, how all beings exist.”

Ifs Knows World Ideas States Understanding Space Existence Emotional Intellectual Fundamentals Time And Space Liberated Phenomenal Intersections Sentient Beings Complete Freedom

Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.”

Thinking Knows Believe Long Self Political Individual Development Periods Vote Fundamentals Campaigns Anarchy Anarchism Anarchist Begging Political Campaign Changes In Society

Book:Freedom, Equality and Solidarity

Source: Freedom, Equality and Solidarity

“I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.”

Knows Fundamentals

Author:Obie Trice