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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
People
Brainy
Men
Some People
Nothing
Think
Thinking
Solid
Willingly
Solutions
Easy
Find
Rarely
Some
Having
More
Almost
Half-Baked
Answers
Quest
Than
Engage
Hard
Pains
Who
Universal
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Confucius
Humility
Virtues
Solid
Solid Foundation
Foundation
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
Happiness
Love
Affection
Whatever
Our
Nine-Tenths
Our Lives
Solid
Responsible
Durable
Lives
You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.
Lilly Singh
Family
You
Solid
Solid Foundation
Friends
Friends And Family
Where
Really
Keep
Foundation
Need
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Great
You
Strong
Build
Building
Solid
Solid Foundation
Weak
Must
Superstructure
Going
Foundation
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
Teacher
Good
Good Teacher
Change
Sometimes
Citizen
Solid
Delinquent
Lifetime
May
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness
You
Man
Marriage
Natural
Will
State
Solid
Find
Anniversary
Most
Which
Natural State
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
Heather Brooke
Technology
Will
Seen
Argument
Solid
Civil
About
Data
Costs
Lead
Quantity
Continue
Domain
Effectiveness
Very
Surveillance
Behaviour
Either
While
Public
Little
Dystopia
Public Domain
Streets
Symbol
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba
Man
World
Illusion
Will
Too
Otherwise
Back
Solid
Must
He
House
Principle
Becomes
Built
Sink
Up
Same
Swallowed
Ground
Foundations
Last
Soft
If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.
Angelina Jolie
You
Change
Nothing
Every
Say
Solid
About
Make
Opinion
Rock
Anybody
Place
Choice
Your
Honest
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling
Life
Fear
Old
Free
My Life
Daughter
Big
Typewriter
Solid
Solid Foundation
Adored
Had
Bottom
Idea
Became
Because
Greatest
Rock
Still
Been
Big Idea
Which
Realized
Who
Foundation
Rebuilt
Set
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
Stephen Covey
Life
You
Constitution
Vision
Values
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Statement
Solid
Criterion
Something
Write
Mission
Becomes
Overnight
Which
Your
Measure
Expression
Fundamentally
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann
Friendship
Relationship
True Friendship
Lust
Dig
Solid
Given
True
Attraction
Often
Romance
Want
Romantic
Form
Novel
Elements
Foundation
It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it's solid so it's something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.
Michelle Obama
Life
You
Remember
Rest
Parents
Solid
Follow
Something
Through
Self
Like
Make
Sure
Because
Always
Proud
How
Came
Were
Authentic
Authentic Self
Going
Where
Hold
Your
Who
Raised
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan
Education
You
Communication
Will
Solid
Solid Foundation
Both
Soon
Importance
Learn
Verbal
Did
Literacy
Succeed
Communication Skills
Skills
Foundation
Basics
Numerical
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Claude McKay
Political
Air
Solid
Solid Foundation
Castle
Idealism
Like
Realism
Social
Foundation
Based
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mind
Mouth
Solid
Object
Something
Opening
Again
Shut
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Work
Ethics
Dignified
Solid
Must
Promote
Rather
Lifestyle
Performance
Matching
Than
Traits
Rhetoric
Actions
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Margaret Fuller
Great
Man
Woman
Fluid
Radical
Sides
Solid
Purely
Fact
Masculine
Another
Dualism
Female
Feminine
Passing
Perpetually
Male
Represent
In Fact
Wholly
Two
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
Donald Trump
Love
Beautiful
Real Estate
Solid
Real
Tangible
Artistic
Just
Estate
Standpoint
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Charles Horton Cooley
People
Society
Solid
Facts
Another
Which
Imaginations
Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
Gail Sheehy
Stress
Stupid
Research
Our
Solid
Out
Spiral
Makes
Chemical
Overload
Nasty
Soup
Proves
Brains
Get
Anxious
Depressive
Us
Creates
Hard
Pull
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck
Business
Book
Writing
Book Writing
Solid
Seem
Horse
Horse Racing
Like
Makes
Stable
Racing
Profession
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.
Richard Dawkins
Sports
Science
Space
Fly
Empty Space
Illustration
Solid
Composed
Intuition
Atom
Entirely
Almost
Like
Crystals
Empty
Rocks
Familiar
Stadium
Taught
Middle
Against
Us
Really
Next
Apparently
Things
I say that building peace is like building a cathedral. You have to have a solid base, and then you do it brick by brick. But the process is irreversible. There's no way back.
Juan Manuel Santos
You
Peace
Building
Back
Way
Say
Solid
Like
Cathedral
Irreversible
Process
Then
Brick
Base
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
Tycho Brahe
Me
Imagination
Spheres
Those
Solid
Only
Clear
Been
Exist
Authors
Quite
Heavens
Appearances
Now
Save
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