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“The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.”

Should Littles Made Country Law Language Deals Rights Design Judging Authority Roots Constitution Fundamentals Court Resistance Vulnerable Categories Judiciary Constitutional Law Redefining

Author:Byron White

“Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in a hundred ways what your life is for. Say you ever and only, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O my God." Out of that dutiful root grows the beautiful life, the life radically and radiantly true to God--the only life that can be lived in both worlds.”

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Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.”

Thinking Values Religious Economic Majors Economics Roots Fundamentals Mere Deeper Opposition Ecology

Book:Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

Source: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

“The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.”

“The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once made Europe great - especially its Christian roots - into today's changed world. No one wants to return to the Middle Ages.”

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Author:Walter Kasper

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is "to move.”

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Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.”

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Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined.”

Humans Human Nature Enlightenment Concepts Roots Fundamentals Determined Conception Alienation Romanticism Manuscripts

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.”

Thinking Way Want Humans Persons Our Lives Racism Roots Fundamentals Errors Selfishness Abortion Justify Stem Symptoms Poisonous Human Error

Author:Alveda King

“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.”

“In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.”

Self Suffering Causes Ignorance Buddhism Roots Fundamentals True Nature Root Cause Misperception

Author:Dalai Lama

“Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.”

Humans Race Events Produce Europe Flow Roots Fundamentals Ancient Contrary Indian Human Race Indian Wisdom Ancient Wisdom

Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation