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The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out from their groups, but let us not think that they as individuals have any viability apart from their group.
Huston Smith
Reality
Group
Think
Assumption
Out
Factor
Individuals
Sure
Began
Viability
Any
Apart
Chinese
Them
Us
Groups
Let Us
Unit
Fundamental
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
Society
Assumptions
Our
Our Choice
Framework
Ways
Those
Abandoning
Seek
Driven
Had
Supporting
Economy
Institutions
Looked
Policy
Dictated
Reform
Hitherto
Transcending
Either
Choice
Fundamental
Nigeria
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Jack Kevorkian
Me
Free
Free Speech
Big
Silenced
Powers
Human
Much
Choice
Human Right
Fundamental
Right
Speech
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
Democracy
Change
Experience
Result
Crime
Poverty
Criminality
High
Must
Rates
Through
Develop
Had
Countries
Pass
Always
Regime
Apartheid
Multicultural
Now
Fundamental
Fundamental Change
Necessarily
Phase
What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.
Jacques Monod
Attitude
Universe
Say
Tried
No Intention
Objectivity
Implies
Call
Scientific
Intention
Plan
Show
Fundamental
The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.
Jaggi Vasudev
Truth
Strength
Nation
Liberation
India
Seekers
Most
Godless
Land
Fundamental
Believers
Like or loathe Donald J. Trump, you have to give him this: He's done more to shine a spotlight on the loopholes and fundamental unfairness of the tax code than any other American president.
James B. Stewart
You
Shine
Loathe
Other
President
Give
More
He
Like
Him
Loopholes
Spotlight
Trump
Than
American
Donald
Any
Done
Unfairness
Tax
Tax Code
American President
Code
Fundamental
Searching for our kindred dead isn't just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected.
James E. Faust
Life
Death
Church
Will
Responsibility
Believe
Our
Members
Kindred
Dead
Just
Hobby
After
Searching
Fundamental
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
James Fenton
Today
Art
Freedom
Age
First
Sense
Other
Our
Characteristics
Vanity
Structure
Poets
Developing
Between
French
Idiom
Verbal
Line
Hand
Efforts
Any
Form
Rhythm
Forms
Choice
Fundamental
A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing.
James Gleick
You
Thanks
Bit
Embody
Computing
Smallest
Particle
Off
Yes
Information
Choice
Electrical
Theory
Unit
Fundamental
Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
James Gleick
Soul
Long
National
Our
Machine
Cherished
American
Patents
Fundamental
Served
Cog
My work in government has flowed from the fundamental idea of personal empowerment. It's about giving people the tools they need to pave their own way.
James Langevin
Work
Government
People
Giving
Own
Tools
Way
About
Idea
Empowerment
Personal
Pave
Fundamental
Need
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
James McAvoy
Human Being
Strong
About
Shakespeare
Structured
He
Still
Were
Very
Psyche
Human
Being
Stories
Fantastic
Fundamental
Things
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.
Janet Yellen
Value
Consider
Way
Ratio
Dividends
Price
Prices
Judging
Housing
Line
Stocks
Common
Whether
Fundamental
The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
Jason Chaffetz
Government
Problem
President
President Obama
Sector
Jobs
Obama
He
Private
Private Sector
Grown
Fundamental
You talk about Shaq, I would put Tim Duncan in that same category. Mr. Fundamental, just kept things simple. He is a great teammate, a great player, and a great person. When you have those ingredients in a champion, you just want to be a part of that and have an opportunity to play with him.
Jason Kidd
Great
You
Champion
Simple
Opportunity
Those
Would
About
Great Person
Great Player
He
Part
Put
Category
Talk
Him
Tim
Person
Same
Just
Want
Ingredients
Teammate
Fundamental
Play
Things
Player
Kept
Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts.
Jeff Landry
Vote
Conservative
Sometimes
Try
Pressure
Made
Promises
Conservatives
Tremendous
Back
Extreme
Ways
Those
Members
Inside
Districts
Constituents
About
Catch
Exert
Opposite
Get
Flak
Them
Groups
Beliefs
Fundamental
Core
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
Jeff Sessions
Marriage
Every
Changing
State
Way
Defined
States
Has-Been
Institution
Altering
Judges
Been
Same
Legislature
Sat
Now
United
Fundamental
Ever
United States
CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.
Jeff Zucker
News
Will
First
Our
Abandon
Never
Equity
Brand
Which
Breaking
Fundamental
An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress.
Jerome Powell
Future
Strong
Congress
Increase
Savings
Budget
Policy
Tie
Accompanied
Ceiling
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Hands
Reforms
Any
Substantial
Enforcement
Should
Mechanism
Fundamental
Against this backdrop of technological change and heightened expectations, it is worth remembering our broad public policy objectives, which are driven by the fundamental importance of the payments system in our society.
Jerome Powell
Change
Worth
Society
Broad
Our
Backdrop
System
Objectives
Driven
Remembering
Importance
Policy
Expectations
Which
Against
Public
Payments
Public Policy
Fundamental
Technological
The Federal Reserve and other central banks have adopted broad public policy objectives to guide the development and oversight of the payments system. At the Fed, we have identified efficiency and safety as our most fundamental objectives, as set forth in our Policy on Payment System Risk.
Jerome Powell
Safety
Other
Broad
Our
Guide
System
Objectives
Adopted
Risk
Fed
Federal
Federal Reserve
Development
Most
Identified
Policy
Oversight
Efficiency
Banks
Central
Public
Forth
Payment
Payments
Public Policy
Reserve
Fundamental
Set
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.
Jim Ryun
Citizen
Become
Year
Statement
States
Solemn
Immigrants
Oath
Thousands
Allegiance
Taken
Vow
Renunciation
America
Each
United
Fundamental
United States
Each Year
Unites
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
Jim Ryun
Democracy
Property
Strong
Protection
Protected
Private
Private Property
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Right
We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Saying
Somebody
Threatening
Wrong
Sort
Another
Very
Beliefs
Fundamental
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
Johan Huizinga
Culture
Striving
Feature
Element
Fundamental
Second
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