Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
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Adversity is the foundation of virtue
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Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
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The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
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Character is the firm foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
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Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.
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Optimism is the foundation of courage.
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
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Whoever said Marriage is a 50-50 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
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The foundation of justice is good faith.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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