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Letter "F" » foundations
«The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.»
Author: George William Curtis
| Keywords:
degeneracy, demagogue, demagogues, foundations, recorded, sneer, sneering, sneers
«The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.»
«We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, a priori, formerly, foundations, respectively
«The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.»
Author: Billy Graham
| Keywords:
corporate, crumble, crumbled, crumbles, crumbling, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, enduring, foundations, homes, rest home
«The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
calculations, employ, exactness, financier, financiers, foundations, impose, instance, obliges, proceedings, revenue, solidity
«Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Acceptance,
Liberty
| Keywords:
foundations, republic, The Foundations, toleration
«The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men.»
«The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.»
«The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Country,
Law and lawyers,
Weapons
| Keywords:
composite, composites, foundations, inevitably
«The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abuses, foundations, guilty, Law of the, oppressing, strongest
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