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It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

The foundation of beauty is the body.

The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.