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• We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. (Jean Baudrillard) [foundations/greatness/greatness]
• We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations. (Walter Benjamin) [ritual/life/foundations]
• The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. (Edmund Burke) [equality/foundations]
• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. (Albert Einstein) [habit/find/foundations/find]
• However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. (Havelock Ellis) [foundations/life/life]
• The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [foundations/matter/spirit]
• For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart. (Eugene Ionesco) [moment/foundations/thing/present]
• The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. (George Santayana) [foundations]
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau) [foundations]
• Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. (Henry David Thoreau) [severity/foundations]
• I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything! (Stephen Baldwin) [think/foundations/god/god]
• In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe. (Leon Jouhaux) [/spirit/foundations/europe]

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