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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
Thomas Sankara
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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
Thomas Sankara
You cannot effect drastic transformation without a measure of craziness.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Isaac Newton
I hold a deep conviction in the Bible as God's divine doctrine, composed by individuals who were enlightened. I peruse the Scriptures regularly.
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
Oliver Sacks
The capacity of music to join and heal. . . is extremely essential. It is the most intense nonchemical remedy.
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The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.
Erving Goffman
The self... is not a corporeal being with predefined parameters of entrance, maturation, and expiration; it is an evanescent impression generated broadly from the circumstances at hand.
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We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.
Primo Levi
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Max Planck
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A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
Deng Xiaoping
There is no inherent incompatibility between socialism and a free market system.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
Thomas Hobbes
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I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second
Paul Tudor Jones
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Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.
Rei Kawakubo
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As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.
Kaoru Ishikawa
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Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise
Michael Jordan
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History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.
Prem Rawat
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It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.
Warren G. Harding
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Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .
Nelson Mandela
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There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
Michael Porter
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We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.
Evelyn Underhill
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
Claude Shannon
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
Max Planck
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
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One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
Janez Drnovsek
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Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.
David Milne
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The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
Ali Khamenei
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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.
Jacob Zuma
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One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.
Ross Perot
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I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
Terence Stamp
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In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.
Kano Jigoro
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The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.
Richard Louv
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
Gilles Deleuze
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Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.
Oliver Sacks
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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
Joseph Stiglitz
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I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.
Sarah Palin
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I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
Piet Mondrian
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Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.
Dianne Feinstein
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Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.
Michael Jordan
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Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.
Dave Barry
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If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
Alexis Herman
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The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.
Leopoldo Lopez
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Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.
Gary L. Francione
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Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.
David McCampbell
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The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts. It may also be called an ecological view, if the term "ecological" is used in a much broader and deeper sense than usual. Deep ecological awareness recognizes the fundamental interdependence of all phenomena and the fact that, as individuals and societies we are all embedded in (and ultimately dependent on) the cyclical process of nature.
Fritjof Capra
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Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.
R. Heber Newton
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I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox
David Foreman
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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
Susan Cain
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Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.
David Elkind
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It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a common birthright; these are fundamentals and should not be handed out as an act of charity.
Alfred Delp