398 Quotes About Fundamentals

  • Author James Surowiecki
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    The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

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  • Author Johannes Stark
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    The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

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  • Author John Sweeney
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    The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.

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  • Author Jonathan Sacks
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    After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

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  • Author Joseph Stalin
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    Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

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  • Author Joseph Stiglitz
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    Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

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  • Author Lytton Strachey
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    During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

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  • Author Michael Sandel
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    What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

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