“I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.” ThinkingGovernmentRolesRightsCitizensFundamentalsFundamental Rights Author:Al Franken
“In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.” ChildrenPlayParentRolesFundamentalsWho You ArePerceiveTensionContradictionAngstLoathingAfghanParent ChildParent Child Relationship Author:Khaled Hosseini
“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.” IfsWayReasonCareSocialRolesOur LivesUnderstoodAdvantageFundamentalsOur SocietySocial Network Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“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.” IfsShouldBelieveLongHas BeensMadeSelfBodyWould BeNationsEasyResultsRolesAliveRevolutionLong TimeUnderstoodShould HaveOrganizationIntelligentFundamentalsUniversityExpectedCorporateRebelEvidentShould Have BeenAlterations Author:Muriel Beadle
“Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.” RolesPeriodsCrisisFundamentalsProfoundBritainDeclineDominantInabilityInstability Author:Martin Jacques
“My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.” MayI CanIdeasJobsQualityRolesUniqueFundamentalsAddInterpreter Author:Kevin Spacey
“Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.” KnowsChildrenStatesFormNationsParentNaturalLeaderRolesDutyHabitCitizensRelationFundamentalsWho You AreNeighborAriseOur FamilyNeighborhoodWorkplaceLinkedParent Child Author:Epictetus
“In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting God, ... But the converse is also true: it is not possible to establish true links with God while ignoring other people. Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam.” PeopleThinkingImportantForgetRolesBuildingFundamentalsIslamVariousDialogueBridgesLinksConversesPeace Building Author:Pope Francis
“The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.” ActorsRolesPicksFundamentalsTricksEvolve Author:Kristen Hager
“The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."” PeopleMenStillsImportantPlayCausesRolesFundamentalsMetaphorHip HopLifestyleHipsHopsParallelsSimile Author:Pusha T
“Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long as he remained within the Nation of Islam, talking to the converted, he did not represent a fundamental threat to the American government.” LongGovernmentNationsTalkingRolesKingsFundamentalsThreatIslamLutherAmerican GovernmentNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable
“There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is enough to warrant the idea that they shouldn't be together. We are so much more alike in nature than we are different, and my ambition with the roles I choose to do is to break down that prejudice, by showing how much I - as a man - am just a man.” MenStillsIdeasDifferentEnoughTogetherBlackDifferencesWhiteRolesBreakAmbitionPrejudiceFundamentalsBreaking DownMisunderstandingObservingMy AmbitionWarrants Author:David Oyelowo
“It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.” FactsLawScienceRolesHard WorkTheoryDiscoveryBasesOriginalsFundamentalsRemarkableQuantumSpontaneousScopeEmissionsQuantum TheoryHistory Of ScienceThermodynamics Author:Ilya Prigogine
“You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.” PlayGovernmentCareFallNationsRolesMajorsFunctionFundamentalsTake CareAgencyEtcReservesBankingPrivate SectorTreasuryFall BackFederal ReserveBanking System Author:Dick Cheney
“Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a fundamental integrity that affects both their thoughts and their actions.” MenWorldGivingImportantCharacterActionInterestRolesHonorIntegrityMen And WomenFundamentalsEducatedPossessingFree SocietyEducated ManVanderbilt Author:Joe B Wyatt
“Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . .” IfsWayImportantPoliticalPrinciplesRolesDemocracyApproachOrganizationFundamentalsDemocraticPreparedLibraryCrucialSpheresBe PreparedProposeAlliancesPublic GoodHumanistic Author:Arthur Curley
“When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.” PeopleMindHelpingPurposeOpportunityIndividualTermCommunityChallengesQualityRolesDemocracyRightsInformationDirectFunctionFundamentalsDemocraticLibraryAccessLifestyleEmploymentContributionOur SocietyQuality Of LifeProspectsAccess To InformationFundamental Rights Author:Arthur Curley
“We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.” PersonsPlayGrowthChangeRolesFundamentalsGuidesPaceScholarRapidsChange And GrowthRapid Change Author:Nathan M. Pusey
“In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church; young people, who are the face of the Church's future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith and who are a daily source of strength in a society that carries this faith forward and renews it.” PeopleImportantPlayFacesYoungChurchLevelsRolesSourceEssentialsFundamentalsRemainsMissionsPassingPassingsCellsCarrieContinentalSource Of StrengthPassing On Author:Pope Francis
“We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.” ThinkingPlayRolesGoneWorshipFundamentalsAttractionSensualEnticementPlaces Of Worship Author:James D. Houston