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"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer
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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera
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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer
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"People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." »Gary Zukav
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"Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk -- to be true to ourselves." »Jim Webb
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"The human mind is our fundamental resource." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." »Yasutani Roshi
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"The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see." »Kedar Joshi
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"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them." »Bertrand Russell
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"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society." »Richard Royster
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius
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"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough." »Heinrich Heine
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"The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy
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"Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species." »Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." »Albert Camus
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"All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut." »Louis Booker Wright
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource." »John F. Kennedy
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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." »Albert Einstein
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"It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love." »Laura Ingalls Wilder
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"Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence." »Sun-Tzu
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"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." »Sister Mary Rose McGeady
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"The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will." »Ferdinand Foch
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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open." »Clive
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"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." »Nathan M. Pusey
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