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It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti.
...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.
Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.
So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.
To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.
We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.
If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.
Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened.
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.
Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.
We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.
Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics.
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
My mother hated foundation; she hated having a mask on her face - and she pushed me to build my own vision and concept of beauty for women.
Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.
Buffett gave significant portions of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett made money for 50 years before he donated.
The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.
What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options