Quotes About Fundamental

Government is an extremely prominent and fundamental feature of the structure of our society. We know that people tend to have a powerful bias in favor of the existing arrangements of their own societies. It therefore stands to reason that, whether or not any government were legitimate, most of us would have a strong tendency to believe that some governments are legitimate, especially our own and others like it.

In other words, its character as resistance literature is actually secondary to, and derivative of, its more fundamental character as worship literature, as a liturgical text.

Markets may initially trend for fundamental reasons, but prices overshoot by ludicrous amounts. At some point, prices go up today simply because they went up yesterday. Michael Platt

Immigration was not just Trumpism's sine qua non, it was the fundamental intellectual pillar that any dope could understand.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

It's our patented Three Laws of Robotics. They're a fundamental part of every robot we manufacture, and we do not continue building or programming until it has become an integral part of them.

Aristotle defined a first principle as "the first basis from which a thing is known." First principles thinking is therefore the art of breaking a problem down to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there.

At times of profound, fundamental change in the foundations of social development it is not only senseless but impossible to expect some sort of previously worked out "model" or a clear-cut outline of the transformations that will take place. This does not mean, however, the absence of a definite goal for the reforms, a distinct conception of their content and the main direction of their development.

The reforms of the perestroika era were aimed at a qualitative renewal of society and at overcoming the totalitarian structure blocking the road to democracy. Fundamental reforms were begun under very complex conditions, but they were cut short by the August coup attempt and the Belovezh agreement that dissolved the Soviet Union.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

I believe that fractional-reserve banking is disastrous both for the morality and for the fundamental bases and institutions of the market economy.

Heterosexuals who act out, verbally or behaviorally, against homosexuals are often accused of being sexist. But, there is a simple but fundamental flaw in this political accusation that is time and time again overlooked. Homosexuality is not a sex. It is not even a gender. It is an abnormal orientation toward sexual intercourse. It is no more than a disorder in choosing whom one will engage in sexual acts with. How can people be sexist against homosexuals? They are not a sex. Sex,

Jesus is not one among the 28 Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Rather, He is the fundamental Adventist Belief through whom all other "beliefs" unfold and find their meaning.

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.

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." [ Live 8 Concert , Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]

Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

Co-creation meets a fundamental need, because 'we cannot bear to live our lives without some sort of content that we can see as constituting a meaning'.

It is difficult, even now, for the Western mind to understand the complexities and subtleties of an Eastern-mind heart. The puzzle piece that seems to be missing is that, in Indian society, the heart and feelings are fundamental to, not separate from, life. This basic concept is the essence of their sacred prayers and scriptures.

standpoint of the Constitution as it had existed until then, Lincoln's proposed order was a fundamental violation—and pointed toward a fundamental restructuring. The Constitution had been born as a compromise. That compromise had been repeatedly updated and reaffirmed until the Civil War began. As it had evolved, the compromise Constitution protected slavery in order to preserve a union capable

What's really driving so-called big data isn't the volume of information. It turns out big data doesn't have to be all that big. Rather, it's about a reconsideration of the fundamental economics of analyzing data.

Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate

It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.